At least six dead and dozens injured in a fire in a nursing home in Milan

six people have died and more than 80 have been injured, some of them seriouslyafter the fire that occurred this Friday at Casa per coniugi, a nursing home located south of Milan, as reported by Italian news agencies.

According to the ANSA news agency, the fire broke out around 01:20 local time, in Cinquecento street, and the firefighters are at the scene. Among the deceased are two women, 69 and 87 yearswho were roommates.

The other four fatalities are three women aged 75, 84 and 85 and a 73-year-old man. They all died from smoke poisoning. which mainly affected the first floor of the building before reaching the second.

Luca Cari, a spokesman for the national fire service, confirmed the death toll to Reuters, saying that the fire had been put out and that they were investigating its causes.

For his part, the Mayor of MilanGiuseppe Sala, assured the journalists who had come to the residence that the fire was extinguished very quicklybut that many elderly people had already been intoxicated with the smoke.

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Four emergency vehicles, a coordination vehicle and 11 ambulances they have arrived at the place. The AGI agency, for its part, citing regional emergency services, reported that 81 people had been hospitalized, three of them in critical condition. There are also another 15 with serious injuries, but not fatal.

The Casa per coniugi is a sanitary residence owned by the Milan City Hall managed by the Proges cooperative, which controls 300 similar residences. It is dedicated to welcoming older people with various levels of dependency, who do not need hospital services. I’ts divided into 12 corestwo of which are dedicated to Alzheimer’s patients.