Mamata orders FIR against AMRI hospital

December 09, 2011 11:51

WB CM Mamata Banerjee has ordered a FIR against AMRI hospital. The cause of the fire is still unknown. Sources say that most of the patients died due to suffocation from smoke in the centrally-airconditioned seven-storey private hospital at Dhakuria in the southern fringes of Kolkata.

As smoke billowed out, firemen using ladders with platforms smashed window panes in the facade of the building to rescue patients trapped inside the ICU, ICCU, Intensive Cardiac Care Unit.

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