More than 100 patients were rescued by firefighters who smashed windows to get them out of the burning building. "Some patients were evacuated by breaking a window on the first floor and then they were lowered to the ground floor. In 2011, more than 90 patients were killed at a private hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata when a fire raged through a private hospital, trapping many patients inside the building. Sharat Kumar Sahu, a police officer at the site of the blaze, told AFP that the fire started in the dialysis ward in the four-storey building and quickly spread to the intensive care unit. The state's chief minister Naveen Patnaik said on Tuesday that he had visited the evacuated patients in hospital and ordered an inquiry into what he called a "tragic incident".

Source: Bangkok Post October 18, 2016 07:30 UTC