A joint team of prosecutors, criminal police officers and explosive specialists from INSEMEX Petrosani is continuing today a scene investigation into a deadly fire that broke out at a ward of the Matei Bals hospital in Bucharest where COVID-19 -patients were treated, according to AGERPRES.
According to judicial sources, the Homicide Service of the Bucharest Police is resuming today hearings of witnesses, with healthcare staff, and relatives of the victims expected to testify.
Two of the fire victims whose bodies got charred remained to be identified at the local National Legal Medicine Institute (INML).
The investigators are also checking the fire protection services, maintenance of the electrical installation and security at the hospital.
In this case, the prosecutor's office has opened a criminal case in rem for culpable homicide.
The fire at the Matei Bals hospital broke out on Friday, around 05:00hrs, EE, on the ground floor of a ward where COVID-19 patients were hospitalised. Three patients got charred to death and a fourth one died after resuscitation failed. Later, another person was found dead in a bathroom and a 70-year-old man died on Saturday after being transferred to the Bucharest University Hospital. On Sunday, a 67-year-old woman died. She had been admitted to the upper floor of the ward where the fire broke out and was transferred to an ICU section of the hospital.
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