CNN
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A huge fire has torn through a commercial building in Iraq’s eastern city of Kut, killing dozens of people, local authorities said Thursday.
About 50 people died in the overnight blaze, multiple Iraqi media outlets reported, citing the governor of the Wasit region. They identified the location as the Kut Hypermarket mall.
Video footage shared on Facebook and geolocated by CNN showed a large multistorey building in Kut engulfed by flames, with a group of people gathered on the rooftop as firefighters battled the blaze. People were seen calmly filing out of the building, as flames raged directly overhead, in another video posted to X.
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