Ten newborns killed in Bhandara hospital fire
Mumbai Mirror / Updated: Jan 10, 2021, 06:00 IST
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained but could have been due to an electric short circuit
Ten newborns were killed in the early hours of Saturday in a massive fire at a hospital in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district.
“The fire broke out at 2 am today,” said Pramod Khandate, civil surgeon at
Bhandara District General Hospital. Seven of the 17 children in the sick newborn care unit were rescued, Khandate said.
The deceased infants – eight girls and two boys – were aged between one month and three months, hospital sources said.