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Scores die in Iraq COVID hospital fire for second time in three months Protests erupted in Iraq Tuesday as the death toll from a horrific fire that tore through a makeshift COVID-19 isolation ward in the southern city of Nasiriyah climbed to 93. The blaze left at least another 100 people injured. The fire began at 10:30 p.m. Monday night, reportedly as the result of an electrical short in an air-conditioning system, which in turn touched off the explosion of improperly stored oxygen tanks. The fire quickly spread through the facility, which had been hastily constructed from a fleet of trailer...

Fire at Coronavirus Hospital in Southern Iraq Kills at Least 92 People ASAAD NIAZI/AFP via Getty Images 13 Jul 2021 A fire ripped through the Chinese coronavirus ward of a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on Monday, killing at least 92 people, Iraq’s state news agency reported Tuesday. The incident took place at al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriyah, the capital of Iraq’s southeastern Dhi Qar Governorate. “The fire began in a quarantine facility for Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] patients attached to the main hospital,” the Wall Street Journalreported, citing local health officials. ...