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Deadly fire hits Azerbaijan rehab centre Azerbaijan fire: 24 killed at drug rehab centre in Baku
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About 25 people have been killed after a fire ripped through a drug rehabilitation centre in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, local media say. A fire has killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation centre in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, officials say.
Television pictures showed flames leaping through barred windows of single-storey buildings. Television pictures showed flames leaping through barred windows of a single-storey wooden building.
Four people were taken to hospital, and the blaze has now been put out, Azerbaijan's news agency APA says. The fire in a ward for bedridden patients was initially caused by an electrical fault in the building, a government statement said.
The cause of the fire is not known. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev is visiting the scene, local media say. Thirty-one people were rescued during the incident, the General Prosecutor's office said.
Four people were taken to hospital, according to Azerbaijan's news agency APA.
The blaze, which broke out just before dawn, was fanned by strong winds. It took around three hours for fire fighters to extinguish it.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev visited the site of the fire, the Republican Narcological Centre, after it was extinguished, local media said.
The former Soviet nation has a chronic shortage of rehabilitation places for its 30,000 registered drug addicts.
Nearly 3,000 people applied for places at the centre in 2015 alone, and a new clinic with 250 places has recently been built.