Iraqi national television said a fire in a coronavirus ward has killed 36 people
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Baghdad (Associated Press)-Iraqi national television said Monday night that a fire swept through a coronavirus ward in southern Iraq, killing at least 36 people
The report said that when a fire broke out in the Hussein Teaching Hospital in the southern city of Nasiriyah, all the victims suffered severe burns.
Two hospital officials, who asked not to be named, said that the new ward opened three months ago had 70 beds.
The cause of the fire is unclear.
This is the second time this year that a fire in an Iraqi hospital has caused the death of a coronavirus patient. In April, an oxygen tank in Baghdad’s Ibn al-Khateeb hospital exploded, causing a fire and killing at least 82 people.
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