Categories: Global

Fire at Czech Alzheimer home kills 2, over 50 injured

PRAGUE (AP): A massive fire in a nursing home for Alzheimer patients in the Czech Republic has left two people dead and injured more than 50 others, officials said on Thursday.

The regional rescue service said the bodies of the two patients were discovered in the badly damaged building following the fire that broke out late Wednesday at the home in Roztoky, a town just north of Prague.

A total of 55 people were injured with two in critical condition, officials said.

Almost 100 firefighters battled the blaze.

Police said the fire might have been caused by human error.

The Frontier Post

Recent Posts

Putin appoints another economist as deputy Russian defense minister

MOSCOW (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin on Monday appointed former deputy economy minister Oleg Savelyev as…

9 hours ago

New cycle of atrocities in Darfur must be stopped

Belkis Wille For months now, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an independent military force, together…

9 hours ago

Arab leaders in Bahrain: No peace without Palestinian state

Baria Alamuddin Whether in US campuses, Western capitals or Arab streets, we have been swamped…

9 hours ago

Symbolic Western sanctions will not change Iran’s behavior

Dr. Mohammed Al-Sulami The EU and the Australian government last week announced new sanctions that…

9 hours ago

Tragedy will not change Iran’s course

LI YANG The deaths of Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and…

9 hours ago

This website uses cookies.