Our Correspondent
Dera Bassi, May 28
Panic gripped patients as well the paramedical staff here after a fire broke out in an electricity panel room of the Civil Hospital here on Monday morning.
Patients as well as attendants were rushed outside the hospital building as they felt suffocation due to smoke caused by the fire, said sources.
The incident took place in the afternoon when one of the attendants noticed smoke and raised the alarm.
A short circuit is suspected to be the cause of the fire as it was an electrical panel that had caught the fire. The room where the fire broke out is situated on the ground floor of the building.
No loss of life was reported as the blaze was brought under control within few minutes. Normalcy returned at the hospital after a half an hour of the incident.
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