Patients killed in Turkish blaze

Dozens of patients were evacuated when the fire broke out on Tuesday [AFP]

Eight people have died in a fire that broke out in a hospital in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa.
Sahabettin Harputlu, the governor of Bursa province, said all the dead had been patients in the intensive care unit at the Sevket Yilmaz hospital.
The fire broke out early on Tuesday. Dozens of other patients and staff were rescued.
Harputlu told state television: "Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire and rescue workers evacuated 44 patients but unfortunately half of the 16 intensive care unit patients died."
"We don't know yet whether they were poisoned by smoke or died when life-supporting machines were left without power during the fire."
Several other patients suffered from smoke inhalation but all were in stable condition, authorities said.
Harputlu said a short circuit was believed to have caused the fire.

Source:Agencies