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Fire engulfs 22 patients in India

NEW DELHI: At least 22 patients have been killed as fire erupted at a hospital in Orissa, the Indian state.

According to the details, fire erupted in the intensive care unit (ICU) of SUM Hospital-cum-medical college due to short circuit.

Rescue officials evacuated the patients, doctors, officials and attendants from the hospital. While 22 fire tenders extinguished the fire in the hospital. More than 100 fire fighters participated in the rescue operation.

Government officials said that most of the causalities happened in ICU. While many patients fell unconscious due to fire and smoke.