Around 50 people were killed and injured when a fire broke out at a shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, state media said Thursday.
“The number of victims has reached about 50 people, martyrs and injured, in the tragic fire at a major shopping center” which broke out late Wednesday, the Wasit province governor, Mohammed al-Miyahi, told the official INA news agency.
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