Iraq announces three days of mourning for the lives of victims of the Corona hospital fire

The Iraqi government announced  national mourning for a period of three days over the loss of the lives of the victims of the huge fire that broke out last night in an intensive care unit designated to treat Corona patients in a hospital in Baghdad.

Alsumaria News stated that the Iraqi government said in a statement that after the fire that broke out in Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital, which claimed the lives of at least 23 people, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi held an emergency meeting with a number of ministers, security leaders and officials at Baghdad Operations Command headquarters. Then he  ordered mourning to be declared over  the lives of the victims, considering what happened as a “harm to the Iraqi national security.”

In turn, the Director of the Iraqi Civil Defense, Major General Kazem Bohan, announced the rescue of 90 people, but he didn’t refer to a new toll of victims.

Inas Abdulkareem