The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Shocking accident in Aleppo | Fire kills three patients in hospital

 

SOHR activists have reported the death of three patients after a fire broke out in a private hospital in Aleppo early morning today, Tuesday.
According to SOHR activists, firefighting vehicles arrived Al-andalus Hospital in the Mokambo district in Aleppo at 3:30 early morning, trying to extinguish the fire that broke out in patients’ rooms.
Sources told SOHR that the fire broke due to electrical short circuit, while rescue teams found three bodies, a man and two women, who died after they inhaled fire gases.
Moreover, some patients and hospital staff sustained burns and suffocated, and were taken to the University Hospital for medical treatment.