At least 100 people were killed and more than 150 injured when a fire broke out during a wedding at an event hall in the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, officials said early Wednesday.
At the main hospital in the predominantly Christian town east of Mosul, an AFP photographer saw ambulances arriving with sirens blaring and dozens of people gathering in the courtyard to donate blood.
In a statement, civil defence authorities reported the presence of prefabricated panels inside the event hall that were"highly flammable and contravened safety standards". "We couldn't see anything," the 17-year-old said, choking back sobs."We were suffocating, we didn't know how to get out." The health ministry said"medical aid trucks" had been dispatched to the area from Baghdad and other provinces, adding that its teams in Nineveh had been mobilised to care for the injured.
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