Civil Defense teams in Karbala, southern Iraq, rescued 200 people after a fire broke out in a hotel in the governorate center.
The Directorate of Civil Defense in Karbala said in a statement seen by Alghadeer News that its detachments in Bab Baghdad Center in Karbala “were able to put out a fire incident that broke out in a room on the fourth floor of the former Dallah Hotel, near Imam al-Abbas holy shrine, after evacuating 200 people.”
She added that “the civil defense detachments were able to control the accident and put out the flames in a short record time after cordoning off the fire and besieging it from several axes and limiting its expansion and spread to the rest of the building’s sections and neighboring shops.”