Wedding fire kills more than 100 people in Iraq

Security forces gather at the site of a fatal fire in the district of Hamdaniya, Nineveh province, Iraq (Farid Abdulwahed/AP)

A fire which raced through a hall at a wedding in northern Iraq has killed at least 114 people, authorities said.

The blaze in the predominantly Christian area of Hamdaniya, close to the city of Mosul, in Nineveh province injured 150 others with authorities warning the number of fatalities could rise.