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Saudi Arabia hospital fire: Dozens killed Saudi Arabia hospital fire: 25 killed and over 100 injured
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At least 25 people have been killed and 100 injured in a hospital fire in southern Saudi Arabia, officials say. An overnight fire at a hospital in southern Saudi Arabia has killed at least 25 people and injured more than 100 others, officials said.
The blaze started at the intensive care and maternity departments of the Jazan General Hospital in the south of the kingdom, the civil defence agency tweeted. The blaze broke out in the intensive care and maternity departments of the Jazan General Hospital, the Civil Defence Agency tweeted.
Reports say the agency tweeted again to say that the "Jazan hospital accident is now over". The fire is now over and those injured have been transferred to other hospitals in the area, it added.
It says an investigation is under way to find out the cause of the blaze. An investigation is under way to find out the cause of the blaze.
Those injured in the fire are reported to have been transferred to private and general hospitals in the area. Some 21 civil defence teams helped extinguish the fire, according to the agency.
Photographs published in Saudi daily Okaz showed rooms inside the hospital charred deep black, debris hanging from the ceiling.