Three patients died, two were injured and another 200 people had to be evacuated after the fire that broke out in a hospital in Tivoli, a city near Rome, the international press reported this Saturday.
According to the EFE news agency, the fire occurred between Friday night and today at the San Giovanni Evangelista hospital, in the city of Tivoli, in the province of Rome, Lazio region.
Those who died in the fire are two men, ages 76 and 86, and an 84-year-old woman. The body of another 86-year-old woman was also found, but the causes of her death are still being investigated because she could have died before the fire, local police reported. Two other people had to be hospitalized after inhaling smoke.
According to the first investigations, the fire started in the back of the hospital – in the area where hospital waste is stored – and spread to the floor where the outpatient clinic is located and, later, reached the emergency room and intensive care unit.
The Tivoli Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation after the fire and an autopsy will be performed on the bodies of the victims to determine the causes of death.
Source: TSF
