At least 25 killed and scores injured in Saudi hospital fire

An overnight fire at a hospital in southern Saudi Arabia has killed at least 25 people and injured more than 100 others, officials say. The blaze broke out in the intensive care and maternity departments of the Jazan General Hospital, the Civil Defence Agency tweeted. The cause of the blaze is still unknown as one witness told Saudi television an electrical fault appeared to be to blame, and that the fire had swept through the building in minutes, the BBC reports.
"We could hear the women screaming," the man said.

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The blaze badly damaged the interior, charring walls and leaving wreckage dangling from the ceiling. Twenty-one civil defence teams helped extinguish the fire, according to the agency. Some Saudis took to social media to complain of what they said was inadequate infrastructure in the area.