In Jhansi, Grieving Parents Struggle To Cope With Loss After Hospital Fire

As Jhansi now struggles to cope with its loss, visuals from the hospital paint a painful image of the grief-stricken parents.

Tragedy struck Jhansi, a city about 100 km from Gwalior, hours before Friday midnight as a massive fire engulfed a ward meant for infants at a government hospital. As the city now struggles to cope with its loss, visuals from the Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College paint a painful image of the grief-stricken parents.

A woman lay motionless on the land, too shocked to express her grief, as her relatives tried to console her. Beside her, a man struggled to hold up his grief-stricken wife and cried, "mera bachcha jal gaya (my child has been burnt)".

Bhagwati, mother of an infant, recounted how she pulled a daring stunt to save her child from the burning war. "Everyone was screaming as the ward went up in flames. They were picking up the babies and handing them outside the windows. I ran inside, picked my baby, and came out," she said.