A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq has killed at least 100 people and injured 150 others.
The fire happened in Iraq’s Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. That’s a predominantly Christian area just outside of the northern city of Mosul, about 200 miles northwest of the capital, Baghdad.
There was no immediate official word on the cause of the blaze but initial reports by the Kurdish television news channel Rudaw suggested fireworks at the venue may have sparked the fire.Television footage showed charred debris inside of the wedding hall as an man shouted at firefighters.
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