At least 60 people died after the fire in the Iraqi Eastern Shopping Center

At the newly opened shopping center in the eastern Iraq, fire, women and children killed more than 60 people, including Iraqi officials on Thursday.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry has died in a fire on Wednesday in Kut, without 61 people died, and most of them drowned. Among the dead, the bodies of 14 people remained unknown.

Civil defense teams were able to save more than 45 people who were closed inside the building.

Only a week ago, he was in a five-storey building in the shopping center, restaurant and supermarket. The State Iraq news agency was reported missing people. Photographs and videos in local media showed that the building fully ignited.

Yasılün Yakülüm Mohammad al-Mayyh announced the mourning three days in a statement. He said that the cause of the fire was investigated, but it was removed against the building owner and shopping center of these legal work. Did not show what the charges were.

“We assure the families of innocent victims that we will not be responsible for those who are directly or indirectly in this incident, or indirectly,” he said.

According to him, the results of the preliminary investigation will be released for 48 hours.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shiite Al-Sudani asked for a fire to explore an expression to the Interior Minister and to take measures to prevent recurrence.

Weak building standards often contribute to tragic fires in Iraq. In July 2021, the fire in a hospital killed in Iraqi in Iraqi in Iraqi was fueled by the Sendwich Panel, which is illegally illegally in Iraq.

In 2023, more than 100 people were killed in a wedding hall in Nineveh province after the ceiling panels on a pyrotechnic car.