At least 41 people died in a hospital fire in Iraq, believed to have started when oxygen tanks exploded in an ICU treating Covid patients, doctor says
At least five people were critically injured.The fire on Monday night is believed to have started after oxygen tanks exploded in an ICU treating Covid-19 patients, al-Zamili said."The civil defense teams managed to control and put out the major fire that broke out at al-Hussein hospital in the city with the help of health workers and neighborhood volunteers," al-Zamili told CNN.
Read MoreIraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi will hold an emergency meeting with a number of ministers and security commanders"to find out the causes and repercussions" of the deadly fire, his office said Tuesday morning.Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi tweeted the fire shows a failure to protect lives"and it is time to put an end to this catastrophic failure, and Parliament will shift today's session to examine options regarding what happened.
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