A fire has killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation centre in Azerbaijan's capital Baku
pictures showed flames leaping through barred windows of a single-storey wooden building
The fire in a ward for bedridden patients was initially caused by an electrical fault in the building, as per government statement
Thirty-one people were rescued during the incident
Four people were taken to hospital, according to APA.
The fire which broke out just before dawn, was fanned by the strong winds. It took around three hours for fire fighters to extinguish it
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