RIYADH - At least 25 people died and 123 were injured on Thursday in a fire at the General Hospital of Jazan in the southwest of Saudi Arabia, Saudi civil defense authorities said in a statement.
The spokesman of this agency in Jazan, Yahya al-Qahtany said in a note that the fire broke out on the first floor of the intensive care unit and the maternity ward.
The official, who did not specify the cause of the accident, said a total of 21 firefighters and medical teams were involved in efforts to extinguish the blaze and rescue the victims.
Civil defense teams evacuated patients from the hospital to nearby medical centers.
"Jazan hospital accident is now over and investigation is underway to find out its reasons," the civil agency said in its latest tweet
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