Wedding hall fire in northern Iraq kills at least 100 people, injures 150 others

A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq killed at least 100 people and injured 150 others, authorities said Wednesday.

The fire happened in Iraq's Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. That's a predominantly Christian area just outside of the northern city of Mosul, about 205 miles northwest of the capital, Baghdad.

There was no immediate official word on the cause of the blaze, but initial reports by the Kurdish television news channel Rudaw suggested fireworks at the venue may have sparked the fire.