Pakistan maternity ward fire kills 14 infants

A fire erupted in a hospital maternity ward in Islamabad yesterday killing 14 infants, Pakistan authorities said, blaming a faulty air-conditioner for the blaze.The dawn fire broke out on the third floor of the Mother and Child Health Ward at the capital’s premier public hospital Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, the Islamabad Office of the Deputy Commissioner said in a statement.The statement gave a death toll of 14, who according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif were all infants. A man carries the body of a newborn, who died following a fire at the Mother and Child Health ward of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, during a funeral in Rawalpindi yesterday. Photo: AFP Nineteen people, including seven children, were rescued, Pakistani Deputy Minister of the