A fire at a hospital in western Turkey has left eight patients in the intensive-care unit dead.
Gov. Sahabettin Harputlu of Bursa province said it was not clear whether the patients died of smoke inhalation or when life-support machines were left without power during the fire at the Sevket Yilmaz hospital on Tuesday.
A short-circuit in the hospital's basement is suspected to have sparked the fire, and affected the entire building when the ventilating system did not work because of the power failure, Harputlu said.
Authorities evacuated all 44 of the hospital's patients, Harputlu said. As well as the eight deaths, several other patients suffered from smoke inhalation but all were in stable condition, authorities said.
With files from the Associated Press