Then, they said, the voluminous bunting on the ceiling quickly caught fire, and the electricity almost immediately turned off, for reasons that were not clear. “When the lights went out, people didn’t know where to go and started hitting the chairs and tables and started falling on the ground,” said Ghazwan Ibrahim, one of the wedding guests. “I searched the hospitals in Mosul, I went to the forensic medicine center, and still I have not found them,” he said. “The roof caught fire within three seconds, and the fire was very big,” he said. “I helped, like, seven or eight people, but I couldn’t help more because I was choking from the smoke and my eyes were stinging and streaming.”

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Persons: ”, Ghazwan Ibrahim, ” Mr, Ibrahim, “, Gorges Yohana Locations: Mosul