Source: Highlights Civil defence teams and firefighting vehicles arrived at the scene to put out the fire and were able to prevent the fire from reaching the upper floors They also rescued some 90 patients and health workers who were surrounded by flames in the building Many patients were affected by the cut of oxygen cylinders during their evacuation from the hospital, and others suffocated by the smoke Baghdad: 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.