Mexico nursing home fire kills 16

AFP, TIJUANA, Mexico: A fire engulfed a nursing home in northern Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 16 elderly residents in a pre-dawn inferno that may have been intentionally ignited, authorities said. Another five seniors had burns and smoke inhalation injuries while one person was listed as missing after the blaze at the "Beautiful Dusk" facility, which cared for former homeless people in a rural area of the border city of Mexicali. "The people in charge of the facility are looking into the presumption that there was an intent (to set the place on fire)," Mexicali Mayor Jaime Diaz Ochoa told Radio Formula.

 

Mexico nursing home fire kills 16

AFP, TIJUANA, Mexico: A fire engulfed a nursing home in northern Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 16 elderly residents in a pre-dawn inferno that may have been intentionally ignited, authorities said. Another five seniors had burns and smoke inhalation injuries while one person was listed as missing after the blaze at the Beautiful Dusk facility, which cared for former homeless people in a rural area of the border city of Mexicali. The people in charge of the facility are looking into the presumption that there was an intent (to set the place on fire), Mexicali Mayor Jaime Diaz Ochoa told Radio Formula.