Christian religious leaders in Iraq are calling for an international investigation into a deadly wedding fire that killed more than 100 people last week
Friends and relatives attend a funeral for the victims who died in a fire during a wedding ceremony in Hamdaniya, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. A fire that raced through a hall hosting a Christian wedding in northern Iraq killed multiple people, authorities said. that killed more than 100 people last week and slammed the government’s probe, which had blamed the blaze on negligence and lack of precautionary measures.
Iraq released the results of its probe on Sunday saying unsafe fireworks were the main reason that caused the fire that killed 107 and injured 82. Several local officials in Nineveh were also subjected to “administrative measures” because of negligence. In July, Sako left his Baghdad headquarters and returned to northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region after Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid revoked a decree recognizing his position as patriarch of the Chaldeans, Iraq’s largest Christian denomination and one of the Catholic Church’s eastern rites.
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