Some managed to escape from multi-storey building by fashioning bedsheets into makeshift ropes
A fire at a hospital in Beijing has killed at least 29 people and forced dozens to evacuate, a Chinese government official has said.
A local government spokesperson said that 26 of those who died were hospital patients, adding that the fire occurred in a wing housing critically ill patients.
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