Map showing the hospital in eastern India where at least 19 people died when the fire broke out on October 17, 2016. - AFP Graphic
New Delhi (AFP) - At least 22 people have been killed in two separate fires in India, most of them patients who were trapped in the intensive care unit of a major hospital, officials said Tuesday.
More than 40 critically ill patients were in the ICU of a private hospital in the eastern state of Odisha when fire broke out on Monday night, apparently after an electric short circuit.
