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Fire officials and locals climb ladders to rescue patients trapped inside a burning hospital in Kolkata, India on December 9, 2011.
Friday, Dec. 09, 2011

Open quoteIt was horrifying that the hospital authorities did not make any effort to rescue trapped patients. Close quote

  • SUBRATA MUKHERJEE,
  • Indian state minister for public health engineering, accusing senior hospital officials of running away after a fire broke out in a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, killing more than 70 people
Photo: Bikas Das / AP | Source: BBC