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114 killed, over 200 wounded in Iraq's wedding hall fire

By Xinhua | Sep. 27, 2023

**When fire engulfed Bobmil factory along mombasa road.** [Maxwell Aggwanda, Standard]

Up to 114 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a huge wedding hall fire in the town of al-Hamdaniya in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, Governor of Nineveh Najm al-Jubouri told reporters on Wednesday.

The fire broke out on Tuesday night in the al-Haytham Wedding Hall in the town of al-Hamdaniya, 35 km southeast of the provincial capital Mosul, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted the Iraqi Civil Defense as saying earlier.

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