Nine die in Romanian hospital fire
Some 100 people had to be evacuated
01 October, 12:06Some 100 people had to be evacuated, services spokesman Razvan Parconie told AFP. "The fire is out, but the firefighters are still inside the hospital," he said. The cause of the fire is not yet known. The head of the Silviu Cosa prefecture, where the hospital is located, said 10 Covid-19 patients were being treated in the hospital's ICU unit when the fire broke out. Five patients died in January in a fire at a Bucharest hospital, two months after another blaze killed 15 patients in a hospital in Piatra Neamt in north eastern Romania. (ANSA-AFP).