{"id":28051,"date":"2019-01-04T18:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28051"},"modified":"2019-01-04T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:24:54","slug":"iraq-several-killed-in-baghdad-womens-shelter-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28051","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Several killed in Baghdad women’s shelter fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fire at a women’s shelter in Iraq<\/a>‘s capital has killed several lodgers, according to police, who gave conflicting accounts of the tragedy.<\/p>\n

Mohammed Jihad, Baghdad’s police lieutenant colonel, called the incident <\/span>a “group suicide” caused by women rioting in the shelter on Friday.<\/p>\n

Briefing reporters outside the Dar al-Zuhur shelter, h<\/span>e said several women were suffering from a “deteriorating mental state” and rioted, leading to the fire that killed six women.<\/p>\n

But another officer at the Rusafa police district, where the shelter is located, told The Associated Press that the fire started in the kitchen after lodgers got into a fight. <\/span><\/p>\n

The officer, who asked that his name be withheld in line with police regulations, said two women died from stab wounds and seven perished in the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty-two others were being treated for injuries at two nearby hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police barred reporters from going inside the shelter, located in Baghdad’s northern Azamiyah area.<\/span><\/p>\n

The shelter, run by the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry’s Office for Rehabilitation, houses homeless women and those with children born out of wedlock.<\/span><\/p>\n

The women who were not caught up in Friday’s violence were transferred to another building run by the social affairs ministry, the social affairs ministry said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Authorities have opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the clashes and fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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