Monday, 12 December 2011

Hospital fire kills at least 73 in eastern India

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - A fire ripped through a seven-storey Hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata before dawn on Friday, killing at least 73 people, most of them patients who were asleep when the blaze started. Thick smoke engulfed the hospital and firefighters smashed windows to evacuate people down ladders to safety from upper floors. Other patients were rolled out on stretchers. The fire broke out in the basement and quickly spread through the building by air-conditioning shafts. People said that the fire brigade took an hour to reach the scene. ...read more..

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