The hospital in Nasiriya opened just three months ago.
64 people have been killed and more than 100 injured on a Covid ward in Iraq, after a fire swept through the building.
Some officials blamed the blaze on an electrical short circuit - while other claimed an oxygen cylinder exploded.
The hospital in Nasiriya opened just three months ago.
It's the second time a fire's killed covid patients in Iraq this year.
At least 52 dead, 22 wounded in Iraq Covid ward firehttps://t.co/5JZv5iuTLw
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