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Fire in neonatal unit kills 11 newborns

Police were on guard and nearby residents and parents stood mourning outside a hospital in Senegal where a fire in the neonatal unit killed 11 newborns. Only three infants could be saved, President Macky Sall said before calling on Thursday, local time, for three days of mourning. Mamadou Mbaye, who witnessed the fire Wednesday at the Abdoul Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in Tivaouane, a town 120km northeast of the capital, Dakar, told The Associated Press that conditions inside the hospital were ‘‘atrocious.’’ ‘‘Itwas hot and smoky inside with a suffocating heat, and therewas a power outage,’’ Mbaye said. The firewas blamed on an electrical short circuit, according to Mayor Demba Diop.

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