Fire kills 82 at Iraqi Covid hospital, health minister suspended | Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
Fire kills 82 at Iraqi Covid hospital, health minister suspended 169 BAGHDAD, April 25, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – More than 80 people died Sunday in a fire that ripped through an Iraqi Covid-19 hospital, sparking anger and prompting the suspension of top officials in a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure. Many of the victims were on respirators and were suffocated or burned in the smoke and flames when the blaze, at eastern Baghdad’s Ibn al-Khatib hospital, started with an explosion caused by “a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders”, medical sources said. The health ministr...