Pakistan hospital fire kills 14 infants
A man in tears outside the PIMS maternity ward, where a fire killed more than a dozen infants (AFP photo)
A fire erupted in a hospital maternity ward in Islamabad on Aug. 26, killing 14 infants, Pakistan authorities said, blaming a faulty air conditioner for the blaze.
The dawn fire broke out on the third floor of the Mother and Child Health Ward at the public Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the Islamabad district office said in a statement.
The statement gave a death toll of 14, who according to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif were all infants. He called for an investigation.
