Dozens dead as fire rips through Iraq COVID ward
Al Jazeera, 13 Jul 2021
At least 64 people have been killed in a fire at the coronavirus isolation ward of a hospital in Iraq, the second deadly blaze in a COVID-19 unit in three months, state news agency INA said on Tuesday.
More than 100 were also injured in the fire that broke out at the al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in the southern city of Nasiriya late on Monday, health officials said. The blaze was brought under control by civil defence teams.
A medical source with the health directorate told AFP news agency the “main reason behind the fire … was the explosion of oxygen tanks".
Al Jazeera's Jillian Wolf reports.
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More than 100 were also injured in the fire that broke out at the al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in the southern city of Nasiriya late on Monday, health officials said. The blaze was brought under control by civil defence teams.
A medical source with the health directorate told AFP news agency the “main reason behind the fire … was the explosion of oxygen tanks".
Al Jazeera's Jillian Wolf reports.
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