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Eighty-two people died in a fire that swept through a hospital in south-eastern Baghdad early Sunday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. Some 110 others were injured in the blaze at the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, which cares for Covid-19 patients, Iraq’s state news agency INA quoted the ministry as saying. The ministry doubted there was a criminal motive for the fire that reports say started at an intensive care unit. “Investigations are ongoing. There are technical and criminal investigations to determine the circumstances of the incident,” the head of the ministry’s press office, Saad Maan, told…