Thursday 24 December 2015

Dozens Killed, Scores Injured As Fire Razes Hospital In Saudi Arabia

A fire ripped through a hospital in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and injuring 107, the authorities said. The blaze broke out in the intensive care unit and the maternity department of the Jazan General Hospital in the kingdom's south, the civil defence agency said on Twitter.


It said in an update later that the fire had been extinguished and an investigation was under way into the cause. Twenty-one civil defence teams had assisted in putting out the blaze, it added.

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