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100 DEAD IN A FIRE IN IRAQ
- It’s at least 113 dead and 200 injured the budget of a fire flared up during the celebration of a marriage to Hamdaniyaha town in the province of Nineveh, Iraq. The health authorities in the area underline that this is a “preliminary” assessment. Save the spouses
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FIREWORKS
- The flames, write the Iraqi state media – quoted by The Guardian – they devastated the event hall where the wedding was being held after the gods had been sent away fireworks. The fire broke out around 10.45pm (local time)
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THE RECONSTRUCTIONS
- As he specifies Al Jazeera, fireworks are very common at weddings in Iraq. According to some reconstructions, however, the flames spread due to an accidental explosion, caused by the candles lit for the wedding. At the time of the accident they would have been about a thousand people were present on site
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THE KNOT OF MATERIALS
- The spread of the fire would also be facilitated by the highly flammable materials with which the structure is builtwhich it is collapsed
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SAFETY MEASURES
- It seems then, we read about it once again Al Jazeerathat the structure did not have adequate facilities security measures
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TOXIC GASES
- Making the situation even more dangerous was the release of toxic gases as linked to the burning of the building’s panels, which also contained plastic
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THE INJURED
- Many of the injured are being treated due to burns or asphyxiation, specified the Minister of Health al-Badr. Nineveh authorities speak of numerous people in “serious conditions”, with burns “on 40% of the body”
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HAMNDANIYAH
- The town of Hamdaniyah it is located north of Mosul, 400 km away from Baghdad
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THE INVESTIGATION
- Both the federal and Iraqi-Kurdish governments have ordered an iinvestigation to shed light on the causes of the fire
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THE RESCUERS
- Medical aid has also arrived in the province of Nineveh from the province of Baghdad
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Source-tg24.sky.it