Ten infants were killed and seventeen injured after a fire tore through a hospital’s neonatal section in northern India, according to the authorities.
Brajesh Pathak, the deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, stated on Saturday that emergency personnel had saved 38 babies from the ward, which had contained 49 infants at the time of the incident.
The Maharani Lakshmibai Medical College in Jhansi, which is roughly 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of the capital, New Delhi, was the scene of the fire on Friday at 10:30 p.m. (17:00 GMT).
In Jhansi, Pathak informed reporters that 17 injured people were being treated in various wards and private hospitals.
The infants perished from asphyxia and burns. According to Pathak, attempts were on to identify the remaining three of the deceased infants, while seven of them had already been recognized.
