A fire tore through a large banquet hall in Iraq Wednesday, killing at least 114 people and injuring 150 more who were celebrating a Christian wedding, authorities announced.
The fast-moving blaze burnt the hall to the ground in Iraq’s predominantly Christian area of Hamdaniya in Nineveh province, authorities said.
The exterior walls of the event space were reportedly covered in highly flammable cladding that is illegal in the country, civil defense officials quoted by the state-run Iraqi News Agency said
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