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Hotel fire kills 14 Filipinos in Iraq

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Hotel fire kills 14 Filipinos in Iraq

AFP

Fourteen Filipinos were among the 19 killed in a hotel fire in the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region on Friday, February 5, officials said. The Filipinos were employees of the 4-star Capitol Hotel, which caught fire due to an electrical problem, based on the initial investigation.

The others killed in the fire included 3 Iraqis, a Palestinian and another person of unknown nationality, said Saman Barzanji, director general of the Erbil health department.

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