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Fire at shopping centre in east Iraq kills more than 60 people
Hindustan Times Patna
|July 18, 2025
A fire engulfed a newly opened shopping centre in eastern Iraq, killing more than 60 people, including children, Iraqi officials said on Thursday.
Civil defence teams rescued over 45 people who became trapped when the fire broke out late on Wednesday in the city of Kut, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Others are still missing, according to the state-run Iraqi News Agency.
Photographs and videos on local media showed the Corniche Hypermarket Mall, a five-story shopping centre that had opened only a week earlier, fully engulfed in flames.
This story is from the July 18, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Patna.
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