Eleven babies die in Senegal hospital fire

Eleven newborn babies have perished in a hospital fire blamed on an electrical short circuit in Senegal’s western city of Tivaouane, authorities said Thursday.

In the latest in a series of hospital deaths that have exposed the weaknesses of the nation’s healthcare system, President Macky Sall announced the tragedy on Twitter before declaring three days of national mourning.

I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of 11 newborn babies in the fire at the neonatal department of the public hospital, Sall wrote after the fire late Wednesday.

To their mothers and their families, I express my deepest sympathy, he tweeted.

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