The deadly episode was reportedly caused by a short circuit. Hospital fires are not uncommon in India, which lags in fire preparedness and building safety.

LUCKNOW, India: A fire at the neonatal unit of an Indian hospital killed 10 newborns, authorities said on Saturday (Nov 16), with another 39 rescued from a blaze that is blamed on a faulty oxygen machine. Building fires are common in India due to a lack of firefighting equipment and a routine disregard for

Seventeen newborns are receiving treatment after the fire.

LUCKNOW: A fire at the neonatal unit of an Indian hospital killed 10 newborns, authorities said Saturday, with another 16 clinging to life after a bla...

Authorities say hospital lacked proper fire exits; police arrest a doctor, facility’s owner.

A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a Jhansi, India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others

Brajesh Pathak dismissed reports that Jhansi Medical College, where a blaze claimed 10 newborns lives, had expired fire extinguishers.

Jhansi Hospital Fire Row: As ten newborns died in a fire at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi, preparations to welcome Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak at the site have triggered a row.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said a short circuit caused the fire at the children's ward of a Jhansi medical college that killed 10 newborns. The state government ordered a three-tier probe into the incident.

The tragedy took place at a hospital in Jhansi city, Uttar Pradesh state.

The incident sparked a political blame game in the state where bypolls to nine assembly seats will be held on November 20. Opposition parties blamed the BJP government in the state and said the deaths raise serious questions about the negligence of the administration.

Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Gyanendra Singh said the autopsies for 7 of the deceased infants were conducted on Saturday, while the remaining 3 are pending due to unidentified parents.

Jhansi hospital fire: The Congress claimed that the entire hospital compound in Jhansi was cleaned and lime was sprinkled on the road to welcome the Deputy Chief Minister.

At least ten newborn babies were killed and 16 others are in a critical condition in India after a fire broke out in a neonatal unit of a hospital in the city of Jhansi.

A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others.

Divisional Commissioner Jhansi Bimal Kumar Dubey, who reached the hospital around midnight, told reporters that there were about 30 children in the interior section of the NICU and most of them were rescued.

Fire at Medical College in Jhansi, UP,  Claims Ten Deaths of Newborn, Sixteen Critically Injured

Hours after a fire claimed the lives of at least 10 newborn children in Jhansi district, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday announced a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each to the parents of the deceased, an official said.

Jhansi Medical College fire tragedy: The fire broke out around 10.45 pm on Friday in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, possibly due to an electrical short circuit. A high-level probe has also been ordered into the incident.

At least 10 children died in a fire that engulfed the children's ward of a medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district, officials said, as 16 others injured battled for life on Saturday.

Jhansi Hospital Fire: An eyewitness told India Today that the fire broke out after a nurse lit a matchstick inside the ward to fix the pipe of an oxygen cylinder.

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LUCKNOW: After a fire swept through a neonatal intensive care unit in northern India, 10 newborn babies died from burns and suffocation, a government official said on Saturday.At the Maharani...

A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others.