Islamabad, Pakistan – A fire erupted in a hospital maternity ward in Islamabad on Wednesday killing 14 infants, Pakistan authorities said, blaming a faulty air conditioner for the blaze.
The dawn fire broke out on the third floor of the Mother and Child Health Ward at the capital’s premier public hospital, the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, local authorities said in a statement.
The statement gave a death toll of 14, who, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, were all infants.
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