About 250 guests tried to escape the wedding hall after the ceiling panels above a pyrotechnic machine burst into flames.
Over 100 people were killed and 150 injured after a fire broke out at a wedding in northern Iraq on the night of September 26-27.
Around 250 panicked guests surged for the exits on Tuesday night in the Haitham Royal Wedding Hall in the predominantly Christian area of Hamdaniya near Mosul after the ceiling panels above a pyrotechnic machine burst into flames. Firefighters conduct work at the scene after a fire broke out at a wedding celebration in the northern Nineveh province in Mosul, Iraq on September 27, 2023.
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