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| Six women dead as blaze sweeps through recovery center in Iraqi capital |
| 2019-01-05 |
| [PRESSTV] Authorities in Iraq say at least six people have bit the dust when a massive fire swept through a recovery center for women and kiddies in the capital Baghdad. A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told Iraq’s Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network that the fire broke out after a riot started at the center in Baghdad’s northwestern neighborhood of al-Adhamiyah on Friday morning. The source added that the recovery center was run under the aegis of the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. It housed children on the first floor and women on the second. On May 26, 2018, officials in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said seven inmates had died of asphyxia in a fire started as part of a prison riot. They said in a statement that another 12 inmates were being treated for smoke inhalation. The riot began when a convict sentenced to death on terrorism-related charges assaulted one of the prison guards. He and other inmates then tried to control the facility, but were unsuccessful. |
| Posted by:Fred |