Mourners demand accountability, bury loved ones after Iraq wedding inferno

September 29th, 2023

Awake Goy

Calls for accountability grew on Thursday for the victims of a deadly fire at an Iraqi wedding celebration in a Christian town as grief-stricken mourners attended a packed memorial service and families buried their loved ones, Reuters reports. More than 100 people died and at least 150 were injured on Tuesday evening in an inferno that government officials have said was enabled by a lack of safety and security measures and the use of highly flammable materials in the building. In a sermon interrupted at times by the wails of women clad in black, a priest at Al-Tahira Church in Hamdaniya – also known as Qaraqosh – told mourners that Iraq had been united in grief but criticised officials for “your corruption, […] Source

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