Iraq’s Nineveh buries its dead as families seek answers after wedding fire

 Most of the wedding guests in the Hamdaniya reception hall belong to Nineveh's Christian minority, but the tragedy shook the whole community. King88bet


Funerals have been taking place for the victims of a fire that killed more than 100 people at a wedding reception in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh. king88bet login alternatif


Hundreds of people gathered on Thursday at the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Nineveh's Hamdaniya district to bid farewell to those killed on Tuesday night. Article Title with Blogger Published Link as Backlink


Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who has ordered an investigation into the blaze, also visited Hamdaniya on Thursday to inspect the site of the fire and meet the kerabates of the victims and survivors.

Several of the dead were also buried on Wednesday afternoon in Hamdaniya, less than 24 hours after the fire.



The crowd of mourners, many dressed in black, looked stunned as relatives and friends carried the coffins of the victims while other famili members wailed. Some stood in silence next to photos placed on the graves of their loved ones.

"Sadness has prevailed in the town. It's as if there was a curfew imposed," Faten Youssef, one of the survivors, said as she attended the funerals on Wednesday. "The town has transformed from happiness to grief and morning."


She said her famili has promised to never attend weddings again.

"My son told me that if he gets married, he will never have an moment like this - just a church ceremony," she said.

‘Disaster in every sense'

More funerals are expected in the coming days as investigators continue to identify the victims, some of whom were burned beyond recognition.


Most of those who attended the wedding belong to Nineveh's Christian minority. But tragedy sent ripples of grief beyond Hamdaniya, a region of small towns with a mixture of Christians, Muslims and small minority religiusons in the Nineveh Plains outside the northern city of Mosul.

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