Senegal’s president calls for national mourning after 11 babies die in fire

Relatives sit outside the Abdoul Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital waiting for news (AP Photo/Cheik Sy)

Police were on guard and nearby residents and parents stood mourning outside a hospital in Senegal where a fire in the neonatal unit killed 11 newborn babies.

Only three infants could be saved, President Macky Sall said before calling on Thursday for three days of mourning for the young lives lost.