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Fire in Russian psychiatric hospital kills 38

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A fire raged through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, including two nurses, emergency officials said.

 

A third nurse managed to save two patients and they were the only three thought to have survived, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the Health Ministry. Police said the fire, which broke out at about 2 a.m. local time in the one-story hospital in the Ramenskoye settlement, was caused by a short circuit, RIA Novosti reported. (AP)

 

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