AN EXPLOSION IN THE CARDIAC CARE UNIT at a hospital in Lugansk, Ukraine, on Monday heavily damaged the building and left at least 16 people dead.
Reuters
It is unclear exactly what happened, but reports from Ukraine are using terms like “oxygen cannisters exploded.” It suggests that something sparked in a hyperbaric atmosphere, but whatever occurred, it blew out the side wall and caused two floors of the 6-story building to collapse down onto the (third) floor.
AFP
Authorities say that there were 261 patients and 350 hospital workers in the building known as City Hospital No. 7 at the time of the explosion. After searching through the destruction for two days, the rescue workers have given up any further attempts at saving anybody and have withdrawn after saving four lives. There are no expectations that there are any more victims or bodies in the rubble.
The police have detained the head of the health and safety department of the hospital on suspicion of violating of safety regulations that resulted in fatalities, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.
Collated from various European news sources.
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