Fire breaks out at Indus Hospital in Visakhapatnam

Efforts are being made to shift the patients to other hospitals. Four fire tenders are at the site to douse the fire. More details are awaited.

Visakhapatnam: A major fire broke out at Indus Hospital near the busy Jagadamba Junction in the city on Thursday, creating panic among the patients and residents in the vicinity.

According to reports, quite a few patients were stuck up in the second floor of the building from which heavy smoke emanated. However, there were no casualties.

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Fire personnel were busy trying to control the fire and it is said that fire broke out first in the operation theatre due to a short circuit.

“A fire broke out at Indus Hospital in Visakhapatnam around noon. There were around 50-70 patients at the hospital at the time of the incident. We managed to evacuate all of them. There’s no one left to be rescued. The preliminary probe suggests that the fire may have broken out at the operation theatre. We will investigate the incident and get to the bottom of it,” Commissioner of Police (CP) Ravi Shankar Ayyanar said.