Fireplace swept by means of the intensive care unit (ICU) of a authorities hospital in India’s western metropolis of Ahmednagar on Saturday, killing at the least 10 individuals and injuring a number of, a well being official stated.
The incident is the newest in a sequence of such fires, some blamed on quick circuits in digital gear, which have killed dozens of sufferers this 12 months, together with some within the richest state of Maharashtra, residence to Ahmednagar.
Authorities are nonetheless investigating the reason for Saturday’s hearth, stated state well being official P.D. Gandal, including that simply seven of the 17 ICU sufferers could possibly be rescued from the blaze.
“Two sufferers are important, and 5 are steady,” Gandal instructed Reuters.
On Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed anguish over the deaths, and supplied condolences to the bereaved, including, “Could the injured get better on the earliest.”
(REUTERS)