Official say 19 killed in hotel fire

(ANSA) - Rome, February 5 - Nineteen people have died and several others have been injured in a fire at a hotel in Irbil, capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the Associated Press reported.
    The governor of Irbil, Nawzad Hadi, said that a large fire broke out at Hotel Capitol in Irbil at 4pm on Friday afternoon.
    He says that 14 of the victims have been identified as citizens of the Philippines, three were Iraqis and one was Palestinian.
    The cause of the fire, which started at the hotel and then spread to a nearby massage center, is still unknown. There have been no early indications that the incident was a terrorist attack.