10 babies killed after fire rips through hospital neonatal unit

A occurrence that swept done a neonatal portion successful India has killed 10 newborn babies and 1 babe is inactive missing.

The newborn babies died from the burns they suffered and from suffocation, a government authoritative confirmed this morning.

The inferno started connected Friday evening astatine the Maharani Laxmibai Medical College successful the Jhansi territory of the country.

Seven of the babies who died successful the blaze person been named but authorities are inactive trying to place the different three.

One of the newborn babies is inactive missing, hours aft the blaze that tore done the unit.

This is according to a authorities curate who did not privation to beryllium named due to the fact that helium is not authorised to speech to the media.

The neonatal portion astatine the infirmary housed 49 babies and different 38 had to beryllium rescued.

State lawman main curate Brajesh Pathak said: ‘Seventeen of the injured are receiving attraction successful antithetic wings and immoderate backstage hospitals.’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken retired pursuing the blaze and described it arsenic ‘heart-wrenching’.

Modi posted connected X: ‘My deepest condolences to those who mislaid their guiltless children successful this.

‘I commune to God to springiness them the spot to carnivore this immense loss.’

An enquiry has been ordered into the incidental and the origin of the occurrence is inactive not yet known.

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