A hospital in northern Athens had to be evacuated at dawn on Thursday when a fire broke out in a patients’ room on the first floor, the fire department said.

A hospital in northern Athens had to be evacuated at dawn on Thursday when a fire broke out in a patients’ room on the first floor, the fire department said.

A patient has been detained as the prime suspect in a fire that broke out at dawn inside the Sismanoglio Hospital in northern Athens.