HOSPITAL FIRE
21 Die, 15 Injured
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SHREWSBURY (England), February 26.
An inquiry begins today into a fire which raged through part of a mental hospial in this Midlands town, killing 21 women patients, a hospital spokesman said today.
Another 15 were injured, two seriously. Ambulances rushed them to another hospital nearby after emergency staff led them down from smoke-filled rooms on the first floor. “We have no idea how the fire started or why it spread so quickly,” a spokesman for the Shelton Mental Hospital said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31614, 27 February 1968, Page 17
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