Fire Devours Trade Shopping Market in Kut

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: In the second accident in three days, fire devoured a number of marketing shops, according to civil defense department source said today.   The department attributed the cause to electrical failure.   The source informed IraqiNews.com that the damages affected a number of shops in addition to carpentry factories, but it was extinguished in time.   “No human casualties were reported, because the fire was in the early morning hours”, the source added.   Fire breaks out occasionally in the province due electricity failure, the last was on Wednesday in a building where Rafidain Bank office is located with housing flats, which resulted in killing one woman and two of her children, as well as burning to other people, who were promptly hospitalized.   Kut city, the center of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of the capital, Baghdad. RM (TI)/SR 467