The death toll has risen to 29 from a fire at a Beijing hospital that was one of the Chinese capital’s deadliest in at least two decades, killing 29 patients and wounding dozens.
Social media showed dramatic videos of people using tied bedsheets to climb down the walls to escape smoke and flames after the fire broke out at Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday.
Broken and burned-out windows could be seen at the site, where there were many police officers, some in plain clothes.
All but three of the 29 dead were patients, officials told a media briefing on Wednesday, with the fire having been put out in half an hour.
, Chinese state media reported. that more than a dozen people have died in a fire at the Beijing hospital that forced the evacuation of dozens of patients on Tuesday.