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A fire tore through a Baghdad hospital's intensive care unit Saturday night, killing 82 people and injuring 110 others. Iraq's prime minister fired key hospital officials, including the director ...
Nurse Maher Ahmed was called to the scene late Saturday to help evacuate patients. The death toll from a massive fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to at least 82 Sunday as ...
The COVID-19 pandemic put a large strain on Iraq. As of April 2021, more than a million cases had been recorded in the country, more than in any other Arab state. [3] [4] The public was skeptical about COVID-19 vaccines, and many were reluctant to wear masks during the pandemic.
Baghdad's security spokesman, Maj-Gen Qassim Moussawi, said: "It is a suicide bomber. Obviously that has the fingerprints of al-Qaeda ”. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Also other Iraqi officials, and the Los Angeles Times suggested, without citing sources, alleged that the Islamic State of Iraq organization was involved in the bombings.
The January 2021 Baghdad bombings were a pair of terrorist attacks that occurred on 21 January 2021, carried out by two suicide bombers at an open-air market in central Baghdad, Iraq. [1] They killed at least 32 people and injured another 110. This was the Iraqi capital’s first terrorist attack since 2019. [2]
The 35 or so bodies were found in a military hospital in the Syrian capital of Damascus, days after the regime fell. They are believed to be among the last victims of Assad.
The newly constructed 70-bed ward at Nasiriyah's Al-Hussein Teaching Hospital was an attempt to alleviate poor conditions following years of violence that impacted on the Iraqi healthcare system. [4] In April 2021, a fire swept through a coronavirus ward in Baghdad, leaving more than 80 people killed. [5]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Repeated U.S. strikes on Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq are pushing the Baghdad government to end the mission of the U.S.-led coalition in the country, the prime minister's ...