Iraqi girl's home burned after she criticised governor
Source: Agence France-Presse
Iraqi girl's home burned after she criticised governor
AFP
4 hours ago
Hilla (Iraq) (AFP) - A 13-year-old Iraqi girl's home burned after she criticised the governor of a central Iraq province in a televised interview, her father and police said on Saturday.
Rawan Salem Hussein challenged Governor Sadiq Madlool al-Sultani to an on-air debate on his contributions to "the cultural situation in Babil", and said she would prove that he had "set Babil province back 50 years".
Hussein's father Salem said the fire at the family's home in Hilla, south of Baghdad, occurred not long after the clip was broadcast on Al-Baghdadiya TV.
A police captain said a malfunctioning heater caused the fire, but Salem said that it had been turned off, and suggested that arson was the cause.
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