Building collapse in northern Iraqi metropolis killing 3, injures 9

A constructing beneath building collapsed in Iraq’s northern metropolis of Mosul, killing three folks and injuring 9 others, police mentioned Friday.

The Thursday afternoon collapse occurred in a western neighborhood of Mosul when employees had been casting the roof of the constructing with cement. The police command in Ninevah province mentioned the constructing is owned by the town’s division in command of the sewage system.

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A constructing beneath building collapsed Thursday in Iraq’s northern metropolis of Mosul, killing three and injuring 9. Pictured are Iraqi girls strolling in {a partially} renovated space in Mosul’s war-damaged Old City, on Nov. 30, 2022.

It mentioned the 9 injured had been taken to a hospital within the metropolis.

Large components of Mosul had been destroyed in 2017 throughout a months lengthy battle towards the Islamic State group that ended with Iraqi forces’ victory over IS within the metropolis. The battle ended the extremists’ caliphate in Iraq in July that yr.

IS captured Mosul, Iraqi’s second-largest metropolis, in June 2014 and held it till their defeat three years later.