Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding after a tragic fire last night in a wedding hall in the Al-Hamdaniyah district of Ninawa governorate, Iraq.
"The scene was chaotic, [with] an enormous influx of people arriving at the hospital,” said Elise Moulin, MSF project coordinator in Mosul. “There were many casualties and a rush of people trying to help.”
Equipped with emergency supplies, our teams have arrived at Al-Salam Hospital, Al-Jumhuri Hospital, and the general hospital in Al-Hamdaniyah. We have donated batches of mass casualty response supplies.
"We express our deepest condolences to the families of victims and wish a quick recovery for those wounded,” said Baroj Hussein, MSF’s head of mission in Iraq. “Our teams are fully mobilized and committed to continuing our emergency support."
