{"id":1783,"date":"2025-07-17T06:12:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/fifty-people-killed-injured-in-huge-fire-at-hypermarket-in-iraqs-kut\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:12:50","slug":"fifty-people-killed-injured-in-huge-fire-at-hypermarket-in-iraqs-kut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/fifty-people-killed-injured-in-huge-fire-at-hypermarket-in-iraqs-kut\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty people killed, injured in huge fire at hypermarket in Iraq\u2019s Kut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>At least 50 people have been killed and injured in a huge fire at a hypermarket in Kut city in eastern Iraq, the INA state news agency has reported, quoting the province\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n<p>Videos on social media showed flames engulfing a five-storey building in Kut overnight, where firefighters were trying to contain the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Wasjit province governor Mohammed al-Mayahi said the fire broke out in a hyper market and a restaurant. Families were having dinner, shopping when fire broke out, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters rescued a number of people and put out fire, the governor added.<\/p>\n<p>Three days of mourning have been announced and an investigation has been launched.\u00a0 Investigation results will be released within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA tragedy and a calamity have befallen us,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have filed lawsuits against the owner of the building and the mall,\u201d INA quoted the governor as saying.<\/p>\n<p><i>More to come\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera<span data-testid=\"source-separator\">, <\/span>News Agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 50 people have been killed and injured in a huge fire at a hypermarket in Kut city in eastern Iraq, the INA state news agency has reported, quoting the province\u2019s governor. Videos on social media showed flames engulfing a five-storey building in Kut overnight, where firefighters were trying to contain the fire. The &#8230; <a title=\"Fifty people killed, injured in huge fire at hypermarket in Iraq\u2019s Kut\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/fifty-people-killed-injured-in-huge-fire-at-hypermarket-in-iraqs-kut\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fifty people killed, injured in huge fire at hypermarket in Iraq\u2019s Kut\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}