10 People dead in Fire at Mall Covid hospital in Mumbai

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Ten patients died after a fire broke out at a Mumbai mall hospital where coronavirus patients were being treated, a fire brigade official said on Friday. The fire broke out at the Sunrise Hospital in the Dreams Mall building in Bhandup area shortly after midnight, the official said.

Around 70 patients were rescued, he added. The hospital said there were two deaths due to COVID-19 at the facility and there was no death due to the fire. The hospital is situated on the top floor of the four-storeyed mall building and 76 patients, most of them being treated for COVID-19, were there when the fire broke out, the official said.

The incident comes amid an upsurge in coronavirus cases in Mumbai. On Thursday, the city logged 5,504 new infections, the highest daily count since the pandemic began. The cause of the ‘level four’ fire (serious emergency call in fire brigade parlance) has not been ascertained yet, the BMC control room sources said.