More than 90 people killed in fire at Iraqi hospital treating Covid-19 patients By: CNN Arshad Mohammed/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
(CNN) The death toll in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in southeastern Iraq has risen to at least 92, according to health officials.
Some 50 others were injured in the Monday night blaze at the Al-Hussein Hospital in the city of Nasiriya. Officials believe the fire started after oxygen tanks in an intensive care unit treating Covid-19 patients exploded. The fire has since been extinguished.
The hospital was set up at the start of the pandemic to treat coronavirus patients and has quarantine stations on site. The fire comes after another in April that also started with exploding oxygen tanks at the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in the capital, Baghdad. At least 82 people were killed.