At least 27 people were killed and 46 injured in a fire that broke out in the coronavirus intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital as public anger erupted demanding the prosecution of high-level Iraqi officials, Al Jazeera reports.
The blaze on Sunday at the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital in the Iraqi capital was sparked by an accident that caused an oxygen tank to explode, according to medical sources.
The flames spread quickly, according to civil defence officials, as “the hospital had no fire protection system and false ceilings allowed the flames to spread to highly flammable products”.
A witness who was visiting his brother when the fire broke out described people jumping out of windows as the fire spread quickly throughout the unit equipped to treat COVID-19 patients.
