23 people were injured.

BAGHDAD, July 16 (Xinhua SONG Dan Xu Yan Yan), according to the latest news from the Iraqi police, a hotel in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah 16 fires have caused 43 deaths, 23 people were injured.

Anonymity, local police source told Xinhua, the deceased usually caused by fire, the smoke suffocation. Most of the dead from Bangladesh, the Philippines and Thailand, which also included four Americans and a few from Canada and other countries of the West. Four women and one child was killed in the fire.

As the fierce fire, the dead were at least 6 people from the five-story hotel's 4th floor jump death.

Based on the preliminary site survey and assessment, local fire, police initially ruled out a terrorist attack, the fire likely caused by a short circuit.

Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, 260 kilometers from the capital Baghdad, is the second largest city in the Kurdish autonomous region. Relative to the attacks and the turmoil continued elsewhere in Iraq, the Kurdish autonomous region more secure and calm, a lot of foreigners every year to the tourism and investment.