16 killed, several injured in fire at Bhubaneshwar hospital

October 17, 2016 22:50

At least 16 people were killed after a major fire broke out at the Sum Hospital in Bhubaneswar on Monday evening.

The fire, suspected to have originated from the dialysis ward on the first floor, quickly spread to other areas, including the ICU on the same floor, of the four-storey hospital building.

The commissionerate of police and fire brigade personnel along with volunteers and hospital staff launched a massive rescue operation as more than 500 in-door patients were trapped in the fire, a hospital source said.

At least seven fire tenders were pressed into service to control the blaze and over a dozen ambulances had been deployed to shift the critical patients to other hospitals.

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