Hundreds of victims in a fire that broke out in an event hall in Mosul
ARK News… Hundreds of people were killed in a fire that broke out late on Tuesday night, September 26, 2023, inside Al-Haytham Events Hall in the Al-Hamdaniya area, east of Mosul.
Nineveh Governor Najm al-Jubouri announced that at least 114 people were killed and about 200 were injured as a result of the Al- Hamdaniya fire.
The Iraqi Minister of Health, Saleh Mahdi Al-Hasnawi, directed the ministry’s departments in Nineveh Governorate and its neighboring departments to be mobilized to aid and treat the injured and provide them with health care.
In this regard, Ministry spokesman Saif Al-Badr said, “Support has arrived from all neighboring governorates and the Kurdistan Region to the Nineveh Health Department.”
Hospitals in the Kurdistan Region received about 50 injured victims of the fire. Three of the injured are undergoing observation in the intensive care rooms at Lalav Hospital, and the rest are undergoing treatment at Erbil Emergency Hospital.
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