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Hospital Fire Kills At Least 82, Injures 110 in Baghdad

Hospital Fire Kills At Least 82, Injures 110 in Baghdad
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By Staff, Agencies

At least 82 people lost their lives and 110 sustained injuries in a fire on Saturday [April 24] at a hospital in southeastern Baghdad that had been equipped to house COVID-19 patients, medical sources at three nearby hospitals said.

The fire at the Ibn Khatib hospital in the Diyala Bridge area of the Iraqi capital occurred after an accident caused an oxygen tank to explode, the sources said.

Video posted on social media showed people carrying patients out of the hospital, many of them elderly.

Patients not injured in the incident were also being transferred out of the hospital, medical sources said.

The head of Iraqi civil defense unit said the fire broke out in the floor designated for the pulmonary intensive care unit and that 90 people have been rescued from the hospital out of 120, state news agency INA quoted him as saying.

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