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Fire kills four in Iraq shrine city as pilgrims gather
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A fire killed four people in the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala Friday as hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims began gathering to mark Ashura, emergency services said. The blaze erupted in an alleyway near the mausoleum of Imam Hussein, the focal point of commemorations for one of the holiest dates in the Shia calendar. "According to preliminary reports, the fire was sparked by a gas bottle in the kitchen" of a refreshment tent set up for pilgrims and then spread into an adjacent market, an emergency services statement said. Fire crews arrived on the scene and put out the blaze "in record time, despite the difficulty of moving fire trucks through the crowds of pilgr

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