There was no immediate official word on the cause of the fire, but initial media reports suggested it may have been caused by fireworks.
A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq killed at least 100 people and injured 150 others, authorities said Wednesday.
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. Soldiers and emergency responders gather around ambulances carrying wounded people outside Hamdaniyah general hospital in northern Iraq, after a fire broke out during a wedding on Sept. 27.Television footage showed charred debris inside of the wedding hall as a man shouted at firefighters.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered an investigation into the fire and asked the country's Interior and Health officials to provide relief, his office said in a statement online.
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