There has been a huge inferno at a hospital in eastern India which killed at least 20 people.
Police say the fire started in an intensive care unit of the Sum Hospital, a private facility in the city of Bhubaneswar in Orissa State.
About 120 fire fighters were mobilised to tackle the blaze, which was later brought under control.
Ambulances took more than 120 patients to other hospitals, officials said, while firemen battled to control the flames.
Some of the wounded patients were still in critical condition.
Many of the dead were elderly people who had suffocated to death, C. R. Nayak, the state’s director of health services, told newsmen.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he is “anguished” by the inferno and that the tragedy is mind-numbing.
Source: Reuters, HWN Africa.
: 2016-10-18 18:50:38 | : 1584