Fire in Dusseldorf hospital - one dead, four critically injured

The fire broke out in a room: After the fire in a hospital in Dusseldorf for four people continues to mortal danger. One of them, according to the fire department, lay in the room where the fire went out.

The 77-year-old who died in the fire, on the other hand, did not lie in this room as first reported, but in a neighboring room. As a final number of the injured called a spokesman for the fire brigade 19, of which seven were severely injured and four in turn life-threatening. Previously there had been talk of 72 injured.

At night, due to the confusing situation in front of the Marien Hospital, it was still unclear how many people were actually injured by the fire and who was being treated for other illnesses. The cause of the fire is still unclear.