HORRIFIC

Fire in Baghdad COVID Hospital Kills 82

At least 110 were injured in the blaze, which began when an oxygen tank exploded.

A fire in a Baghdad hospital treating coronavirus patients killed and injured dozens of people Saturday, Reuters reports. The fire began when an unspecified accident at the Ibn Khatib hospital led to an oxygen tank in the pulmonary intensive care unit exploding. At least 82 people were killed, and 110 were injured, according to Reuters. It is unknown how many casualties were patients and how many were physicians and staff. Iraq’s civil defense minister said that 90 patients from the hospital, which holds 120 people total, have been rescued and sent to other hospitals and that the blaze has been extinguished. Among the dead were 28 patients on ventilators.