Civil Defense teams extinguish a fire in a hotel in central Karbala and rescue 78 persons

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18-07-2021, 10:53

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Baghdad-INA

The Civil Defense Directorate announced on Sunday that its cadres managed to control and put out a fire in a hotel in central Karbala, rescuing 78 of the hotel guests.

A statement by the Civil Defense Directorate, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that Civil Defense teams rescued 78 persons after a fire broke out inside the four-storey Dai Al-Hussain Hotel with a number of shops on the ground floor located in Al-Saddah Street in the center of the holy city of Karbala.

the civil defense ambulance teams provided pulmonary resuscitation for those who suffocated as a result of inhaling the toxic products of the fire before transfer them to the nearby hospital to receive the necessary care there, affirming that a girl died in the hospital as a result of suffocation, the statement mentioned.

The incident was controlled and an investigation was conducted, based on the report of the forensic expert to determine the causes of the fire.