A three-month-old baby was among eight people killed in a fire at a Mumbai hospital, officials said Tuesday, in the latest disaster to highlight lax safety standards in India.
The blaze broke out around 4:00 pm (1030 GMT) on Monday on the fourth floor of a government-run hospital in the northern suburb of Andheri.
The death toll rose from six to eight Tuesday, a spokesman for the city’s disaster management cell told AFP.
Another 140 people, including patients, doctors and nurses were rescued and were being treated at hospitals across the city, he said.
The cause of the blaze at the ESIC Kamgar hospital is not yet known but a fire official told AFP that the hospital had not sought a proper safety inspection. Read more
