{"id":1020,"date":"2023-09-26T19:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T23:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/iraq-wedding-hall-fire-kills-at-least-100\/26\/09\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T19:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T23:52:49","slug":"iraq-wedding-hall-fire-kills-at-least-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/iraq-wedding-hall-fire-kills-at-least-100\/26\/09\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Wedding Hall Fire Kills at Least 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">NINEVEH, Iraq \u2014 At least 100 people were killed and 150 more injured in a fire at a wedding celebration in the district of Hamdaniya in Iraq\u2019s Nineveh Province, Iraqi state media reported early on Wednesday, with local sources saying the toll was expected to rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fire ripped through a large events hall in the northeastern region after fireworks were lit during the celebration, the local civil defense said, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Video from a Reuters correspondent at the site showed firefighters clambering over the charred wreckage of the building in search of survivors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Preliminary information indicated that the building was made of highly flammable construction materials, contributing to its rapid collapse, state media said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ambulances and medical crews were dispatched to the site by the federal authorities and the authorities in Iraq\u2019s semiautonomous Kurdistan region, according to official statements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/26\/world\/middleeast\/iraq-wedding-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NINEVEH, Iraq &mdash; At least 100 people were killed and 150 more injured in a fire at a wedding celebration in the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/iraq-wedding-hall-fire-kills-at-least-100\/26\/09\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}