Iraq wedding fire updates: Arrests made as more than 100 killed in blaze
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Mourners take to the streets to bid fire victims farewell
Mourners have taken to the streets of northern Iraq's Nineveh province to mourn the death of 100 people killed in the devastating fire that erupted during a wedding on Tuesday night. king88bet login alternatif
Mourners react during the funeral of victims of the fatal fire at a wedding celebration, at the cemetery of Hamdanya, in Iraq [Abdullah Rashid/Reuters] Article Title with Blogger Published Link as Backlink
Mourners carry a coffin of a victim of the fatal fire at a wedding celebration, during the funeral in Hamdaniya, Iraq [Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters]
US ambassador to Iraq expresses ‘solidarity'
The United States ambassador to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, has expressed Washington DC's "solidarity" with the Iraqi people "in their sorrow" following the fire tragedy at al-Hamdaniyah.
"Today, we stand side-by-side with all Iraqis in their grief for the victims and those injured at the wedding in the Hamdaniyah tragedy," Romanowski wrote in English and Arabic in a media sosial post on Wednesday.
Kuwait's emir sends message of condolences to Iraqi leaders
Kuwaiti Emir Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah has sent two cables of condolences to Iraq's president and prime minister following the fire tragedy in Nineveh.
According to the state-owned Kuwaiti TV, the emir mourned with the kerabates of the victims of the fire that killed at least 100 people and left more than 150 others injured.
Injured fire victims being treated in hospitals across Iraq
A girl injured in the fire at a wedding celebration in Nineveh province lies on a hospital bed in Erbil in Iraq's Kurdish region, September 27. [Azad Lashkari/Reuters]
Another survivor of the fatal fire is being cared for by a nun at a hospital in Erbil. [Azad Lashkari/Reuters]
Not a wedding but ‘hell': Relatives mourn famili members
Relatives gathered outside a morgue in the nearby city of Mosul, wailing in distress.