Officials struggled Friday to identify more than a dozen bodies pulled from a deadly shopping mall fire in Iraq, amid ongoing investigations into what caused the blaze. An Iraqi medical official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment said the final death toll was 63,

Fire crew were assessing the scene of a massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in eastern Iraq, which has left dozens dead.

While the cause of the fire has not yet been determined, officials blamed a lack of safety standards in the building for the scale of the tragedy.