Parliament sitting cancelled after toilet fire

Tuesday’s sitting of the People’s Majlis was cancelled after a fire broke out at a toilet inside the parliament building Monday night.

The parliament secretariat informed MPs that the sitting was cancelled because “time is needed to bring the place back to a normal state and to take other measures in connection with the [fire incident].”

Ibrahim Azim, the military’s fire and rescue team’s spokesman, told the press that no one was harmed as the fire was put out shortly after it was reported around 6 pm.

Opposition lawmakers alleged that the restroom was deliberately set on fire for a pretext to cancel the sitting.