HORRIFIC A man looks around at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital in Al Nasiriyah, Iraq after a massive fire engulfed it on July 12, 2021. At least 92 people died and 22 were wounded in the fire. GLOBAL TIMES PHOTO
HORRIFIC A man looks around at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital in Al Nasiriyah, Iraq after a massive fire engulfed it on July 12, 2021. At least 92 people died and 22 were wounded in the fire. GLOBAL TIMES PHOTO


NASIRIYAH: The death toll from a fire that swept through a hospital coronavirus ward climbed to 92 on Wednesday, Iraq's state news agency reported, as anguished relatives buried their loved ones and lashed out at the government over the country's second such disaster in less than three months.

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