Three intensive care patients killed in huge explosion sparked by vigil candle lit for Covid victim
THREE people have died after a candle lit in memory of a Covid patient caused a fireball to erupt in an intensive care unit, officials said.
Yesterday, a hospital staffer in Kosiv, western Ukraine, lit the candle in tribute to the victim according to local tradition, the emergencies services said.The fire erupted after a candle was lit in tribute to a dead Covid patientThe flame was lit in the hospital's ICU where five oxygen concentrators had been operating, with equipment instantly catching fire.
"Ignorance of the elementary laws of physics and disregard for safety rules have led to irreparable losses," officials said, describing the incident as a "terrible mistake".Tragically, a 76-year-old man and two women - aged 58 and 76 respectively - died in the inferno.The local prosecutors office is probing the deadly fire which erupted on the ground floor of the facility, Interfax news agency reports.
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