At least 36 people dead, 5 others injured in fire at COVID-19 hospital in Iraq

By Haydar Karaalp

BAGHDAD (AA) – At least 36 people have been killed and five others injured from a fire in a COVID-19 isolation ward at a hospital in southern Iraq, Iraqi state media reported Monday.

A fire broke out for an unknown reason at Al-Hussein Hospital in Nasiriya city in Dhi Qar governorate where COVID-19 patients were hospitalized, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.

The local fire department has dispatched a team to the scene.

Earlier Monday, another fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Ministry of Health in central Baghdad.

*Writing by Zehra Nur Duz