Hospital fire kills 10 infants in India
Ten infants were killed as a fire broke out at the neonatal care section of a hospital in Bhandara district of Maharashtra in the wee hours of today, doctors said.
All the infants were between a month and three months' old, said District Civil Surgeon Pramod Khandate.
The fire broke out at the Special NewBorn Care Unit of the hospital, about 900km from Mumbai, around 2:00am, he said.
There were 17 babies at the unit and seven were rescued, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting the civil surgeon.
Another doctor said a nurse first noticed smoke coming out of the neonatal section and alerted doctors and other staff.
The cause of the fire in the four-storeyed building could not be ascertained yet but electrical short circuit can be the reason, the doctor said.
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