A fire at a retirement home in the early hours of Friday in Milan killed six people, firefighters said, with “numerous” residents hospitalised.
“Six people killed, numerous others suffering from smoke inhalation hospitalised. Dozens of people saved by firefighters who immediately evacuated the building,” the fire brigade said on Twitter.
An AFP photographer saw the bodies of two of the victims being removed from the three-storey building which was reportedly housing 167 people when the fire started.
The cause of the blaze was not yet known, the fire brigade said.
Over 10 ambulances, various fire trucks and a silver mortuary van could be seen outside the building in the south of the Italian city.
Some eighty people were rushed to hospital, two of whom were fighting for their lives, Milan’s fire chief Nicola Micele said.
Some 14 others were in serious condition, Italian media said.
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