{"id":561,"date":"2010-07-18T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T10:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=561"},"modified":"2010-07-18T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T10:46:20","slug":"14-foreigners-among-30-killed-in-iraq-hotel-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/07\/18\/561\/","title":{"rendered":"14 foreigners among 30 killed in Iraq hotel blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"hotel-soma\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/hotel-soma.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"231\" \/>SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq, killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said on Friday.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citizens of Australia, Britain, Canada and several Asian and South American countries were among those killed in Thursday night\u2019s blaze in Sulaimaniyah, which raged for seven hours before being brought under control, officials said.<br \/>A preliminary report prepared by the city\u2019s hospital said people from 12 nations had died and a medical official said the bodies of the foreigners had been identified by colleagues from the respective companies they worked for.<br \/>Visiting telecommunications engineers from Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Cambodia, were among the victims, according to hospital officials and the chairman of the telecoms company. \u201cThe number killed is 30, among whom there are 14 foreigners,\u201d said Rikot Hama Rasheed, the director of Sulaimaniyah hospital, following the fire, which rose rapidly from the second floor of the six-level Soma hotel.<br \/> \u201cThe regional government will contact the embassies of the foreigners who were killed,\u201d said Rasheed, listing Iraq, Ecuador, Venezuela, Lebanon, South Africa and Bangladesh as among the victims\u2019 nationalities. He said 22 survivors were receiving treatment at the hospital.<br \/>Witnesses told AFP at least three of those who died did so after leaping from the hotel\u2019s windows in a desperate bid to save themselves as flames and smoke engulfed their rooms. Mirwan Saeed, 30, who was visiting friends in the hotel, broke both his legs after making his way to the roof and jumping towards a nearby lower building to save his life.<br \/> \u201cWe were in the hotel when the smoke started coming in,\u201d he told AFP from his hospital bed. \u201cI had no choice but to jump.\u201d Colonel Araz Bakr, chief of Sulaimaniyah rescue services, confirmed the death toll and said 42 people were injured, including seven firefighters. He said most of those who died were suffocated by smoke.<br \/>A city council official said an electrical fault caused the blaze, which also damaged several adjacent buildings. \u201cWomen and children are among the victims of the incident which happened in the Soma Hotel,\u201d said the official, Razgar Ahmed.<br \/>Sulaimaniyah, 270 kilometres north of Baghdad is the capital of one of three northern provinces that make up Iraq\u2019s autonomous Kurdish region. It is popular with tourists and business has flourished in recent years as it is peaceful, unlike much of Iraq which remains wracked by violence seven years after a US-led invasion toppled now executed dictator Saddam Hussein.<br \/>An official from the city\u2019s mortuary said in an earlier report that four Americans were among the dead in the fire but there was no confirmation from the hospital. A US embassy spokesman said consular officials were checking whether American citizens were among the dead or injured.<br \/>The victims from the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Cambodia worked for telecoms operator Asiacell, one of three major mobile communications companies in Iraq. \u201cWe lost four engineers from our company, one of them a lady from the Philippines, and three of them men from Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Iraq,\u201d said Faruk Mula Mustafa, chairman of Asiacell. Two other Iraqi employees were injured in the fire, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: TheNews.com.pk<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: Guests leapt desperately to their deaths from upper-floor windows as a fire tore through a hotel in northern Iraq, killing 30 people, 14 of them foreigners, police and medics said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>14 foreigners among 30 killed in Iraq hotel blaze - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/07\/18\/561\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"14 foreigners among 30 killed in Iraq hotel blaze - 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