Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills nine people
The Peninsula
BUCHAREST - Nine people died on Friday when a fire broke out in an intensive care unit at a Romanian hospital treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country's third deadly hospital fire in less than a year.
Firefighters extinguished the fire at the hospital in the eastern city of Constanta at around 0755 GMT, having brought in additional teams from nearby counties.
Video footage showed patients jumping out of windows from the hospital's lower levels and firefighters carrying people out.
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