A fire tore through a newly opened shopping center in eastern Iraq, killing at least 61 people, including women and children, ...

A huge fire has torn through a commercial building in Iraq’s eastern city of Kut, killing dozens of people, local authorities ...

An overnight fire at a shopping mall in Iraq has killed more than 60 people, according to the country's interior ministry.

A fire in eastern Iraq's Wasit province reportedly killed over 60 people. Investigation is underway, and legal cases have been filed against mall and building owners.

Local officials blamed shoddy construction and a lack of preparedness for the scale of the tragedy at the newly opened ...

A massive fire in a shopping centre in Kut city in eastern Iraq has left at least 69 people dead and 11 others missing, the ...

Video circulating online showed flames engulfing a five-storey building in the city of Al-Kut, with ambulances delivering casualties to hospitals until the early hours of Thursday.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that 61 people died in the shopping center fire, most of them from suffocation. Among the dead were 14 charred bodies that remain unidentified, it said.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that 61 people died in the shopping center fire, most of them from suffocation. Among the dead were 14 charred bodies that remain unidentified, it said.

KUT, Iraq (AP) — A fire engulfed a newly opened shopping center in eastern Iraq, killing more than 60 people, including children, Iraqi officials said Thursday.