At least 24 newborn babies have died in a fire that broke out at a Baghdad
hospital Wednesday morning, Iraqi health officials reported.
“After a fire broke out at one of the maternity wards at the Yarmouk
Hospital in Baghdad, an Oxygen capsule detonated at the ward, as a result
the babies got burned and died,” said the Iraqi health ministry in a
statement.
According to Rudaw.net, the babies killed were all prematurely born.At
least seven other children and 29 women were rescued and transferred to
another hospital. The statement added that the fire was immediately brought
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