Baghdad-Sana
The Iraqi government announced the national mourning for a period of three days for 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 resulted in an unofficial preliminary count of at least 23 people, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi held an emergency meeting with a number of ministers, security leaders and officials at the Baghdad Operations Command headquarters. And he ordered to declare mourning for the lives of the victims of the accident, considering what happened "harms the Iraqi national security."
In turn, the Director of the Iraqi Civil Defense, Major General Kazem Bohan, announced that 90 people had been rescued from the hospital fire, explaining that "the fire broke out in the floor designated for pulmonary resuscitation and the fire spread rapidly, indicating information about the existence of an explosion of oxygen gas."
The Director of Civil Defense did not refer to a new toll of the accident victims, and an Iraqi security source announced yesterday the death of 9 patients and wounding 32 others due to the outbreak of the fire in Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital.