10 killed as fire engulfs Vijaywada hotel being used as Covid-19 centre

Ten men and women died Sunday when fire engulfed a hotel becoming made use of as Covid-19 facility in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijaywada town, media studies mentioned.

“fifteen-twenty men and women have been hurt in the incident. They have been rushed to medical center. 2-three of them are important,” NDTV quoted a senior officer as saying.

The quantity of people killed in the fire at a hotel becoming made use of as a Covid-19 facility in Vijayawada rose to ten on Sunday, mentioned Vikrant Patil, Deputy Commissioner of Police.

The hotel was becoming made use of by a company medical center for managing Covid-19 individuals, the web-site mentioned.

Police mentioned an not known quantity of men and women are feared trapped inside of the hotel. Information company ANI documented 30 men and women have been rescued from the hotel so considerably.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned on Twitter he was “anguished” by the fatalities and he had reviewed the fire with Andhra Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh governing administration announced Rs fifty lakh ex-gratia every single to the family members of people who misplaced their life in the incident. In accordance to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister’s Workplace (CMO), Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy also requested an in-depth probe into the incident and directed authorities to get ways to make certain much better healthcare solutions to the victims of the incident.

8 men and women had been killed in a fire in the intensive treatment device (ICU) of a personal Covid-19 specified medical center in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Thursday. Police had mentioned the fire broke out due to a short circuit on the fourth flooring of the medical center.

The purpose of fire seems to be a short circuit, as for every the preliminary report, but we will have to confirm: Krishna DC Mohammad Imtiaz