Civil Defense teams were able today, Sunday, to extinguish a large fire that broke out in old-built houses inside the old Kasbah in the city of Hilla, without casualties. Civil Defense Media Director Aqeel Abdullah said, 'Civil Defense teams were able to extinguish a large fire that broke out in one of the old houses in the area inside Hilla and quickly spread to a number of neighboring houses before the Civil Defense teams were able to extinguish it.' He added that the police opened an investigation to find out the causes of the fire. Source: National Iraqi News Agency