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By Reuters | April 26th 2021
People look on at Ibn Khatib hospital after a fire caused by an oxygen tank explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. [Reuters]
A fire sparked by an oxygen tank explosion killed at least 82 people and injured 110 at a hospital in Baghdad that had been equipped to house Covid-19 patients, an Interior Ministry spokesman said yesterday. We urgently need to review safety measures at all hospitals to prevent such a painful incident from happening in future,” spokesman Khalid al-Muhanna told state television, announcing the toll.
The fire erupted on Saturday at the Ibn Khatib hospital in the Diyala Bridge area. Ali Bayati, a member of Iraq’s semi-official High Commission for Human Rights, had said earlier a final death toll had not yet been officially announced but it could be between 30 to 45.
The death toll from a massive fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to at least 82 Sunday as anxious families searched for missing relatives and the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence.
Updated: 12:47 PM EDT Apr 25, 2021 By SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press The death toll from a massive fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to at least 82 Sunday as anxious families searched for missing relatives and the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence.The flames, described by one witness as volcanoes of fire, swept through the intensive care unit of the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, which tends exclusively to COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms. Officials said the blaze, which also injured 110 people, was set off by an exploding oxygen cylinder.Nurse Maher Ahmed was called to the scene late Saturday to help evacuate patients. I could not have imagined it would be a massive blaze like that, he said. The flames overwhelmed the hospital s second floor isolation hall within three to four minutes of the oxygen cylinder exploding, he said. Volcanoes of fire. Most of those killed suffered severe burns, he said. Others were
Read more about 82 die after oxygen cylinder explodes at Iraq coronavirus hospital on Business Standard. The death toll from a massive fire in a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to 82 Sunday, as anxious relatives searched for those missing