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Videos shared online showed thick clouds of smoke billowing from the Al Hussein hospital.
13 Jul 2021 07:47AM (Updated:
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NASIRIYA, Iraq: At least 52 people were killed and 22 others injured in a fire likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a COVID-19 hospital in Iraq s southern city of Nassiriya, health officials and police said on Monday (Jul 12).
This is the second such deadly blaze in Iraq in three months.
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The fire broke out at the Al-Hussein hospital late on Monday and was brought under control by local civil defence forces.
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Smoke rises after fire broke out in a Covid-19 isolation ward of Al-Hussein Hospital
At least 64 people died and more than 100 were injured when a massive fire engulfed the coronavirus isolation ward of an Iraqi hospital on Monday, a health official said.
The fire broke out at the Al-Hussein hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah late on Monday and was brought under control by local civil defence forces.
A medical source with the health directorate told AFP the main reason behind the fire. was the explosion of oxygen tanks .
Haydar al-Zamili, the local health authority s spokesman, said: The victims died of burns and the search is continuing.
At least 52 dead, 22 wounded in Iraq COVID ward fire: health official The fire broke out at the Al-Hussein hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah late Monday and was brought under control by local civil defence forces. FILE: Haydar al-Zamili, the local health authority s spokesperson, said early Tuesday 52 bodies were retrieved and another 22 people were wounded in the latest toll, after the fire had ripped through the COVID isolation ward . Picture: Freeimages.com.
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NASIRIYAH, Iraq - At least 52 people died and 22 were wounded when a massive fire engulfed the coronavirus isolation ward of an Iraqi hospital Monday, a health official said.