{"id":1098,"date":"2023-09-27T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2023-12-18T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T08:14:58","slug":"more-than-100-killed-as-fire-hits-wedding-party-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/more-than-100-killed-as-fire-hits-wedding-party-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE THAN 100 KILLED AS FIRE HITS WEDDING PARTY IN IRAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>MORE than 100 people were killed while 150 others were injured in a fire that struck a wedding party in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi Civil Defense said initial reports showed fireworks used in the wedding celebration started the disaster that occurred in the Hamdaniyah district of northeast Nineveh governorate.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Hamdaniyah is located outside of the northern city of Mosul, some 400kms. northwest of the capital Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Nineveh governor Najm Al-Jubouri told the Iraqi state news agency INA that the injured were transferred to hospitals in Nineveh and the Kurdistan region.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no final count of the deceased and injured yet,\u201d Al-Jubouri said, according to INA.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Based on videos from the scene, thick smoke were seen billowing out of the Al Haytham Wedding Hall while crowds and ambulances gather outside.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The bride and groom were safe but devastated, a wedding guest told private Iraqi channel Alawla TV.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRE IN A WEDDING IN IRAQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}