Three patients killed in fire at hospital in German city of Hamburg

Firefighters at the Marienkrankenhaus hospital in Hamburg (Steven Hutchings/dpa/AP)

Three patients were killed and many people were injured, two of them critically, in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in the German city of Hamburg, authorities said on Sunday.

Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the hospital, the Marienkrankenhaus, shortly after midnight.