Al-Amara, A huge fire broke out, at dawn today, Thursday, inside the carpenters' market in the city of Al-Amara, the center of Maysan Governorate. A police source told the correspondent of the National Iraqi News Agency /NINA: 'An electrical short circuit caused the fire to break out, which effected a number of shops.' He added: "The fire brigades went to the scene of the accident and extinguished the fire before it expanded and spread, without recording any human casualties." Source: National Iraqi News Agency
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