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Al Jazeera
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Urooba Jamal, Maziar Motamedi

What we know so far about the deadly wedding fire in Iraq’s Nineveh

Officials walk through the rubble at the site following a fatal fire at a wedding celebration, in the district of Hamdaniya in Iraq's Nineveh governorate, [Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters]

Iraq has woken up to the news of a huge fire at a wedding celebration that killed at least 100 and injured at least 150.

Updates are still coming in about the blaze on Tuesday night, which is believed to have been caused by fireworks.

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