Fire erupted in a secondhand clothes market in Erbil

Shafaq News/ A fire broke out near "Langa" market for secondhand clothing in the capital of the Kurdistan Region, Erbil.

Erbil's directorate of Civil Defense said in a statement issued earlier today, Friday, that the flames engulfed a garden that contains old clothes near the market.

Firefighting teams were able to extinguish the fire and curbed the blazes from extending to the market, the statement said.