Erbil, Reuters, 5 February 2016
A fire at a hotel in the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region killed 17 people on Friday, the governor of Erbil told a local media network.
Nawzad Hadi told Rudaw TV that 14 of the victims were not from the autonomous region, but that their nationality was not yet known.
Meanwhile, citing a health ministry official as saying, reported that 14 of the dead were foreigners, most of them from the Philippines.
