Initial reports indicate that fireworks used during wedding ceremony may have been responsible for blaze.

At least 100 people have been reported killed and more than 150 injured in a fire at a wedding celebration in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, the Reuters news agency reported, citing state media in Iraq.

Health authorities in Nineveh province “have counted 100 dead and more than 150 injured in the fire at a marriage hall in Al-Hamdaniyah”, the official Iraqi press agency INA reported early on Wednesday, citing a “preliminary” death toll.