Apr 19, 2023 04:22 AM

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Hospital Fire Kills 21 People in Beijing

The east wing of the Changfeng Hospital is an eight-story building with around 16 wards on each floor.

The east wing of the Changfeng Hospital is an eight-story building with around 16 wards on each floor.

What happened: Twenty-one people were killed after a fire broke out Tuesday in a hospital in the western part of Beijing, the official newspaper Beijing Daily reported.

The blaze was one of the deadliest in the capital city in recent years. In November 2017, a fire in an apartment block killed 19 and injured eight.

The fire occurred around noon Tuesday in the east wing of the inpatient department of Changfeng Hospital in the Fengtai District. The fire was extinguished at around 13:33.

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