3 w. ago Officials try to identify 18 bodies in deadly Iraq shopping mall fire

Officials in Iraq are struggling to identify more than a dozen bodies pulled from a deadly fire at a shopping mall

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3 w. ago More than 60 die in fire at newly opened shopping mall in Iraq

Survivor says the blaze, which killed at least 61 people in the eastern city of Kut, started after an air conditioning unit explodedA fire has torn through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, killing at least 61 people, as desperate families searched for missing relatives.Officials said many people suffocated in bathrooms, while one person said his five relatives died in a lift. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Iraq mall fire kills dozens as shoppers 'suffocate in toilets' after explosion

The fire in the Corniche Hypermarket Mall in Kut, Iraq, is believed to have killed at least 61 people, with shoppers trapped inside the newly opened building when it exploded

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3 w. ago Huge blaze rips through Iraq shopping mall killing at least 61 with dozens more missing

A huge blaze erupted at a newly-opened shopping centre in Iraq on Wednesday (16 July), leaving at least 61 people dead and several more missing.

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3 w. ago More than 60 dead in Iraq shopping mall inferno 'after air conditioner explodes'

Officials have launched an investigation into the blaze at the newly-opened Hyper Mall in the city of Kut.

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3 w. ago More than 60 people killed in Iraq after fire sweeps through mall

The blaze erupted late on Wednesday in the city of al-Kut – with 14 bodies yet to be identified

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3 w. ago Why has it taken a decade to exhume the bodies of the 800 dead babies of Tuam? | Caelainn Hogan

The mass exhumation in Ireland is vindication for campaigners – but their battle for justice is far from overA young girl played on a swing near a mass grave as the names of hundreds of children who died in a mother-and-baby institution in Ireland were read out during a memorial service late last year. The bright day turned to dark in the time it took.Now, the playground near the site in Tuam has been dismantled and the long-awaited exhumation has begun. But why has it taken more than a decade since it emerged that those dead children were likely buried in sewage chambers on the grounds of a publicly funded institution run by nuns and the local council? Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Why has it taken Ireland a decade to exhume the bodies of the 800 dead babies of Tuam? | Caelainn Hogan

The mass exhumation is vindication for campaigners – but their battle for justice is far from overA young girl played on a swing near a mass grave as the names of hundreds of children who died in a mother-and-baby institution in Ireland were read out during a memorial service late last year. The bright day turned to dark in the time it took.Now, the playground near the site in Tuam has been dismantled and the long-awaited exhumation has begun. But why has it taken more than a decade since it emerged that those dead children were likely buried in sewage chambers on the grounds of a publicly funded institution run by nuns and the local council? Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Breakthrough as scientists develop new skin test which can identify Parkinson's seven years before official diagnosis

Experts from the University of Manchester have based the new test on the ability of a 'super smeller' Scottish grandmother who can detect the disease by smell.

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