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Ten newborn babies died from burns and suffocation aft a occurrence swept done a neonatal intensive attraction portion successful northern India, a authorities authoritative said connected Saturday.
The blaze broke retired precocious connected Friday astatine the Maharani Laxmibai Medical College successful Jhansi territory astir 285 km (180 miles) southwest of Lucknow, the superior of Uttar Pradesh state.
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Emergency responders rescued 38 newborns from the ward, which housed 49 infants astatine the clip of the incident, said authorities Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak.
Police officers analyse the damaged neonatal intensive attraction portion aft a occurrence broke retired astatine the Maharani Laxmibai Medical College successful Jhansi district, successful the bluish authorities of Uttar Pradesh, India, Saturday. (REUTERS/Stringer)
"Seventeen of the injured are receiving attraction successful antithetic wings and immoderate backstage hospitals," Pathak told reporters successful Jhansi. Seven of the deceased infants person been identified, portion the authorities are moving to place the remaining three, helium said.
One babe remains missing, said a authorities authoritative who asked not to beryllium identified arsenic helium is not authorised to talk to media.
The origin of the occurrence remains unknown. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered an enquiry into the incident.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences implicit the "heart-wrenching" incident.
"My deepest condolences to those who mislaid their guiltless children successful this," Modi posted connected the X platform. "I commune to God to springiness them the spot to carnivore this immense loss."
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