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Death toll in fire at Iraqi COVID-19 hospital tops 80
Mourners pray near the coffins of coronavirus patients who were killed in a hospital fire, during their funeral at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that over 80 people died and over 100 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients in the early morning Sunday. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
Explosion at Iraqi hospital causes ‘volcanoes of fire,’ killing at least 82
Updated Apr 25, 2021;
Posted Apr 25, 2021
Mourners pray near the coffins of coronavirus patients who were killed in a hospital fire, during their funeral at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)AP
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BAGHDAD 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.
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In Bagdad sind mehr als 80 Menschen Explosionen von Sauerstofflaschen in einem Bagdader Corona-Krankenhaus zum Opfer gefallen. Überall im Irak kam es daraufhin zu Protesten und Demonstrationen:
Protests erupted in several Iraqi cities on Sunday evening in response to a massive hospital fire in Baghdad the previous night that many see as a result of the state’s corruption and mismanagement.
Demonstrations took place in the provinces of Baghdad, Nasiriyah, Wasit, Babil, Karbala, Najaf, Muthanna and Basra in solidarity with the victims of the fire that ripped through Ibn al-Khatib Hospital on Saturday night. The incident, which has killed at least 82 people and injured another 110, has been widely blamed on the facility’s storage of oxygen cylinders.
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Baghdad hospital blaze kills 82
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Baghdad, April 26 : The death toll from a huge fire that broke out in a hospital treating coronavirus patients in Baghdad rose to 82 killed and some 110 wounded, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The fire of Ibn al-Khatib Hospital resulted in the killing of 82 patients and health workers and the wounding of 110 others, Khalid al-Mahana, spokesman of the ministry, told the official Iraqiya channel on Sunday. Many of the wounded are still in critical conditions, al-Mahana said.
The incident occurred late on Saturday night when several oxygen cylinders exploded, setting a huge fire at Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, which is dedicated to treating coronavirus patients on the eastern side of the capital, said a statement released by the country s civil defence, Xinhua news agency reported.