58 dead in Iraqi Covid hospital fire

Fifty-eight people were killed in a fire that ravaged at a Covid-19 hospital in the Iraqi capital overnight Sunday, according to an official toll.

“The number of deaths as a result of the Ibn al-Khatib hospital fire was 58, of which 28 were on ventilators” being treated for Covid-19, Ali Bayati, a member of Iraq’s Human Rights Commission, said.

Details later…Punch