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Three persons person been arrested successful transportation with the fire incidental astatine a backstage infirmary successful Muzaffarpur district of Bihar connected June 4, which had led to the decease of six patients successful the ICU, a constabulary serviceman said connected Friday (May 5, 2026).
According to Mohibullah Ansari, Superintendent of Police (City), Muzaffarpur, the arrested persons hap to beryllium unit members of the Prasad Hospital successful Brahmapura locality, wherever fume had filled the fifth-floor ICU, and immoderate of the patients choked to decease since evacuation did not statesman until the occurrence brigade arrived.
"In pursuance of the FIR that was lodged by the Fire Officer of Muzaffarpur, we arrested Pankaj, the doc who was successful complaint of the ICU, successful summation to Ram Kumar and Ajit Kumar, the admin manager and the attraction manager, respectively", said Mr. Ansari.
He added, "The aforesaid persons were recovered to beryllium chiefly liable for the incident. However, upon further investigations, much arrests whitethorn follow. We are investigating arsenic to whether the infirmary gathering has been constructed successful accordance with rules and whether occurrence information norms were being followed".
"If the infirmary is recovered to beryllium wanting connected the aforementioned counts, we whitethorn instrumentality enactment against the proprietor arsenic well", said the official.
Altogether, six patients admitted to the ICU, including 2 women, had died successful the incident. Four of the deceased were section residents, portion the remaining 2 hailed from adjoining districts of Sitamarhi and Sheohar.
Officials person squarely blamed the unit connected work for the deaths, claiming that nary lives were mislaid to pain injuries and each the fatalities resulted from asphyxiation.
Hospital authorities have, truthful far, been tight-lipped implicit the incident, though officials progressive successful the rescue operation, which saved the lives of much than 20 patients, and respective attendants person alleged that erstwhile fume filled the ICU, "the unit connected work ran away".
