The coffin of a coronavirus patient killed in Saturday's hospital fire in Iraq's capital Baghdad is carried by mourners at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, on Sunday. AP
The coffin of a coronavirus patient killed in Saturday's hospital fire in Iraq's capital Baghdad is carried by mourners at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, on Sunday. AP

Iraq

Grieving Iraqis blame institutionalised corruption for hospital blaze that killed 82

The incident killed at least 82 people and injured 110 others

Sinan Mahmoud
Sinan Mahmoud
Baghdad, Iraq

April 25, 2021