Tragedy Strikes Qaraqosh: 120 Dead and Hundreds Injured in Horrific Pyrotechnic Accident

2023-09-27 20:21:38

Pyrotechnic devices set fire to the ceiling, trapping more than a thousand guests, in Qaraqosh, during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. 120 people died or disappeared and hundreds of others were injured, most of them very seriously burned. Iraq has declared a three-day national mourning. Article reserved for subscribers By Benoît Drevet Published on 09/27/2023 at 10:21 p.m. Reading time: 3 min

With drawn features, misty eyes, bruised faces… more than ten thousand people went in a long and slow procession to the cemetery of the Resurrection in Qaraqosh, the largest Christian city in Iraq (Niniveh region). , in the North), Wednesday at 4 p.m. local time. The shock is palpable, barely ten hours following the tragedy of a magnitude never experienced by Christians here, even during the arrival of Daesh.

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