{"id":405669,"date":"2018-03-02T07:34:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=405669"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:27:51","slug":"deadly-fire-hits-azerbaijan-health-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/deadly-fire-hits-azerbaijan-health-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly fire hits Azerbaijan health centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
A fire has killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation centre in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, officials say.<\/p>\n
Television pictures showed flames leaping through barred windows of a single-storey wooden building.<\/p>\n
The fire in a ward for bedridden patients was initially caused by an electrical fault in the building, a government statement said.<\/p>\n
Thirty-one people were rescued during the incident, the General Prosecutor’s office said.<\/p>\n
Four people were taken to hospital, according to Azerbaijan’s news agency APA.<\/p>\n
The blaze, which broke out just before dawn, was fanned by strong winds. It took around three hours for fire fighters to extinguish it.<\/p>\n
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev visited the site of the fire, the Republican Narcological Centre, after it was extinguished, local media said.<\/p>\n
The former Soviet nation has a chronic shortage of rehabilitation places for its 30,000 registered drug addicts.<\/p>\n
Nearly 3,000 people applied for places at the centre in 2015 alone, and a new clinic with 250 places has recently been built.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A fire has killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation centre in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, officials say. Television pictures showed flames leaping through barred windows of a single-storey wooden building. The fire in a ward for bedridden patients was initially caused by an electrical fault in the building, a government statement said. Thirty-one people were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":212459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[17531,412],"yoast_head":"\n