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North Iraq hotel fire kills 29, half foreign (AP)

July 16th, 2010

View of the fire-damaged Soma Hotel in the Iraqi northern city of Sulaimaniyah. Four Americans and at least three other foreigners were among 29 people killed in a hotel fire in northern Iraq that saw some of the victims jump to their deaths.(AFP/Shwan Mohammed)AP - A fire in a five-story hotel in northern Iraq killed 29 people, nearly half of whom were foreigners, in a harrowing blaze that forced several victims to jump to their deaths to escape the flames, officials and witnesses said Friday.


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