At least 11 dead in Rio hospital blaze | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

Hospital authorities said the blaze late on Thursday was thought to have been caused by a short circuit in a generator, although the city mayor said sabotage could not be ruled out.

“The majority were due to suffocation and other causes related to the accident… the devices keeping them alive stopped working because of the fire,” Gabriela Graca, director of the forensic institute, told local media. During the evacuation, patients on gurneys and stretchers were carried into surrounding streets as ambulances struggled through crowds of curious onlookers to transport patients to other medical facilities.

Staff wheeled medical equipment outside, and the most seriously ill patients were taken at first to a nearby children’s nursery.“I was able to take my mother out of her room and when we got to the fire escape, there were a lot of people running around,” lawyer Carlos Otorelo, whose 93-year-old mother was being treated for pneumonia, told the UOL news website.Other relatives were forced to wait outside for word on their loved ones as dense black fumes filled the sky.

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