“We mourn the loss of life in a hospital fire at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital in Baghdad.

We are in contact with Iraqi officials and offered help, ”said US Assistant to the President for National Security Jake Sullivan in a statement.

The text notes that the strategic partnership between the United States and Iraq is "primarily a partnership between the peoples of the two countries."

Earlier, Baghdad Today News, citing Iraqi authorities, reported that the death toll in a fire at a hospital for coronavirus infected in Baghdad had risen to 82.