Six newborn babies die after fire tears through Delhi hospital

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Bystanders ran in to rescue 12 newborns from fire at children’s hospital as PM Narendra Modi says deaths are ‘heart-rending’

Burnt birth registration cards from the New Born Baby Care hospital, where a fire broke out on Saturday evening.Burnt birth registration cards from the New Born Baby Care hospital, where a fire broke out on Saturday evening.Six newborn babies have died after a fire tore through a children’s hospital in the Indian capital, Delhi, with people charging into the flames to rescue the infants, police said on Sunday.

In the first minutes of the fire, bystanders spotted the flames and braved the blaze to rescue the newborns. In that fire – which ripped through a centre with a bowling alley and other games crowded with youngsters – police warned that many of the bodies were so badly burned it was difficult to identify them.

In addition to the six reported to have died, another baby among the 12 brought out of the ward was dead before the fire began, Choudhary said.The director of Delhi’s fire department, Atul Garg, told the Press Trust of India news agency that 14 fire trucks were sent to the hospital.Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, called the situation “heartbreaking”.

 

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