Fire in COVID-19 intensive care unit kills 8 people in southeast Turkey

  19 December 2020    Read: 1346
Fire in COVID-19 intensive care unit kills 8 people in southeast Turkey

A fire in a private hospital’s COVID-19 intensive care unit killed eight people, the governor’s office in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep said on Saturday.

The fire was caused by the explosion of an oxygen ventilator, the office said in a statement, adding that 11 other patients receiving treatment in the unit were transferred to nearby hospitals.


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