Three newborns died after a fire that broke out in the neonatal intensive care unit of a government hospital in Maharashtra’s Amravati district in the early hours of Monday, PTI reported.The fire broke out at the Amravati District Women’s Hospital around 3.15 am when a ventilator in the unit sparked, the news agency quoted an unidentified official as saying.Nine infants were in the room when the blaze began, The Indian Express reported. Hospital staffers evacuated all nine babies, but three of them died.The remaining six babies have been admitted to a super speciality hospital.Amravati Deputy Commissioner of Police Shyam Ghuge said that the fire was confined to one room in the neonatal intensive care unit and was doused within about 30 minutes, The Indian Express reported.“There was a technical fault in the thermal unit, following which the fire broke out,” the official was quoted by the newspaper as saying. “The attendants immediately took out the nine babies from the room, of whom three died.”STORY | Three newborns die in fire at govt hospital's NICU in Maharashtra's AmravatiThree newborns were killed when a fire broke out in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a government hospital in Maharashtra’s Amravati district early on Monday, officials said.READ:… pic.twitter.com/0fbXlL0nr1— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 24, 2026