BREAKING: Officials in western India say 10 patients have died after fire breaks out in COVID-19 hospital ward.
A man is carried for treatment after a fire in a hospital's COVID-19 ward that caught fire in Ahmednagar, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Ten patients died in the fire, officials said. Such incidents are not uncommon in India. In May, when the country was battling a devastating surge in coronavirus cases, a fire in a COVID-19 ward in western India killed at least 18 patients.
An official told New Delhi Television that around 17 patients were in the ward in the city of Ahmednagar when the fire broke out. The remaining patients have been moved to a COVID-19 ward in another hospital, district collector Rajendra Bhosle said.
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