Fire kills 25 in Saudi hospital’s maternity ward and intensive care unit

At least 25 people died and 123 were injured in a fire at a hospital in southernSaudi Arabia.

The blaze broke out at the intensive care unit and the maternity department of the Jazan general hospital in southern Saudi Arabia, the civil defence agency said on Twitter.

The agency said later that the fire had been extinguished and an investigation was under way into the cause.

Twenty-one civil defence teams had assisted in putting out the blaze, it added.