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Fire in COVID hospital in North Macedonia kills ten

Fire at a hospital for COVID-19 patients, in Tetovo
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The latest data on casualties in the fire that caught the COVID hospital in the northwestern town of Tetovo in North Macedonia on Wednesday night showed ten deaths, but the fear was the numbers might rise.

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Health Minister Venko Filipce confirmed that ten patients died, but there could be more fatalities.

He said the fire was extinguished, and the injured were transported to a hospital in Skopje.

The cause of the blast is still unknown.

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Tetovo Mayor Teut Arifi said it broke out at great speed and that more details about the number of casualties were still coming from the hospital and the police.

The media reported the hospital had at least 35 patients.

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