Doctors battle to save lives of those injured in New York high-rise blaze

Dozens of people were in hospital, and Mayor Eric Adams said on Monday morning that several people were in critical condition after Sunday’s fire in the Bronx, already the city’s deadliest in three decades

Ladders are seen erected beside the apartment building (Yui Iwamura/AP)

Doctors worked on Monday to save the lives of multiple people gravely injured when smoke from a fire knocked them out or trapped them in their apartments in a New York City high-rise building.

Nineteen people, including nine children, died in the blaze.