Three COVID-19 patients among United Hospital fire victims

Fire service men work to extinguish fire at United Hospital
Fire service men work to extinguish fire at United HospitalCollected

Three among five people killed in a fire at city’s United Hospital on Wednesday night were coronavirus patients.

The victims were on life support, the hospital authorities said in a press release on Wednesday night.

It also said one among the five dead in the fire was a woman.

The deceased include Riazul Alam, 45, Khodeza Begum, 70, Verun Anthony Paul, 74, Md. Monir Hossain, 75, and Md. Mahbub, 50.