Russian hospital fire kills 45 trapped women

A fire has broken out in a women’s ward of a Moscow drug treatment hospital, filling the ward with heavy smoke and killing 45 women who became trapped between the fire and a locked gate, officials said.

Russian hospital fire kills 45 trapped women

A fire has broken out in a women’s ward of a Moscow drug treatment hospital, filling the ward with heavy smoke and killing 45 women who became trapped between the fire and a locked gate, officials said.

It is the deadliest fire in the Russian capital in three years.

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