At least 23 people were killed and around 30 injured when a major fire broke out at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar on Monday night.
The blaze was suspected to have been triggered by a short circuit in the dialysis ward on the first floor of SUM Hospital which spread to the nearby Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
“Most of the victims were in the first floor ICU of the ill-fated SUM Hospital,” a doctor at the Capital Hospital, where some of the critically injured were undergoing treatment, told PTI.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced “deep anguish” at the loss of lives, calling the tragedy “mind-numbing”.
“Deeply anguished by the loss of lives in the hospital fire in Odisha. The tragedy is mind-numbing. My thoughts are with bereaved families,” Modi tweeted.