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Updated: 12:47 PM EDT Apr 25, 2021 By SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press 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.Nurse Maher Ahmed was called to the scene late Saturday to help evacuate patients. I could not have imagined it would be a massive blaze like that, he said. The flames overwhelmed the hospital s second floor isolation hall within three to four minutes of the oxygen cylinder exploding, he said. Volcanoes of fire. Most of those killed suffered severe burns, he said. Ot ....
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82 dead after fire of coronavirus ward of Baghdad hospital By Samya Kullab article A view of Ibn al-Hatip Hospital as fire erupts at the hospital where coronavirus patients were being treated in Baghdad, Iraq on April 24, 2021.(Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) BAGHDAD (AP) - The death toll from a massive fire in a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to 82 Sunday, as anxious relatives searched for those missing and the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence. The blaze, described by one witness as volcanoes of fire, swept through the intensive care unit of the Ibn al-Khatib hospital which tends exclusively to coronavirus patients with severe symptoms. Officials said the blaze, which also injured 110 people, was set off by an exploding oxygen cylinder. ....