The Minister of Interior, Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, announced that the owner of the hall in Al-Hamdaniyah has been handed over from the Kurdistan region.
The Kurdistan Region Security Council had previously announced the arrest of the owner of the hall that caught fire in Al-Hamdaniyah district.
The council said in a statement that the Federal Ministry of Interior issued an arrest warrant for a number of people, including the owner of the hall, Samir Suleiman Karume Rafu Aso.
It added, “After receiving an arrest warrant, our institutions in the Kurdistan Region Security Council in Erbil arrested the owner of the hall and handed him over to the Ministry of Interior in the Federal Government of Iraq.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency