Kurdish television showed footage of fireworks being let off which then engulfed a chandelier.
The Iraqi News Agency reported that the hall’s exterior was being decorated with highly flammable cladding that is illegal in the country.
Father Rudi Saffar Khoury, a priest at the wedding, said it was unclear who was to blame for the fire. In the aftermath, all that was left of the hall was charred metal and debris which could only be seen under the light from survivors’ mobile phones or the TV crews’ cameras. ‘All efforts are being made to provide relief to those affected by the unfortunate accident,’ al-Badr said.
Hamdaniya is on Iraq’s Nineveh Plains and under the control of its central government, though it is close to and claimed by Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish regional government.
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