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Firefighters with breathing apparatus and a ladder truck work at the Marienkrankenhaus hospital in Hamburg’s Hohenfelde district of Hamburg, Germany, Sunday, June 1, 2025.

Firefighters with breathing apparatus and a ladder truck work at the Marienkrankenhaus hospital in Hamburg’s Hohenfelde district of Hamburg, Germany, Sunday, June 1, 2025.
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Three patients were killed and many people were injured, two of them critically, in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in the German city of Hamburg, authorities said Sunday (June 1, 2025).

Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the hospital, the Marienkrankenhaus, shortly after midnight. It broke out in a room in the geriatric ward, on the ground floor of the building, and spread to the facade of the floor above. Smoke spread across the building’s four floors.

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire.

The fire department said that three adult patients were killed and more than 50 people injured, the German news agency dpa reported. Of those, two were in life-threatening condition, 16 had serious injuries and 36 were slightly hurt.

A section of the hospital had to be evacuated. Injured patients were treated either at the hospital itself or in nearby clinics. The fire was extinguished within about 20 minutes.

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday said the Delhi government will set up 7,000 smart classrooms in its schools by the end of the year. She added that 175 digital libraries and 100 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Language Labs offering foreign language instruction in English, French, and German will also be made operational in the Delhi government-run schools. The CM made the announcements following a meeting she chaired with the principals of Delhi government schools in her Assembly constituency of Shalimar Bagh. ‘Intimidating parents’ In a social media post later in the day, she spoke about the “alarming reports of schools employing bouncers to intimidate parents and students”. “Education is a right, not a business. Our children deserve compassion, not coercion. Schools must remain spaces of learning, values, and nation-building,” the CM said. Her comments come a day after the Delhi High Court expressed dismay at the “reprehensible practice” by Delhi Public School, Dwarka, of allegedly hiring bouncers to block the entry of the students who had not paid the increased fee. Ms. Gupta hit out at the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for engaging in “propaganda about improving education” while “failing to provide” basic education infrastructure despite being in power for 11 years, citing the state of a government school in her constituency’s Haiderpur village. “The area neither has an English-medium school nor a higher secondary school where science is taught,” she said. The CM added, “Their much-celebrated school buildings were structurally weak — one built in 2018 deteriorated within just two years. This exposes their ‘education model’ and shows that it was merely a facade.” She said that many government schools lack proper sports grounds, face hygiene and security issues, and suffer from acute staff shortages.Cities

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday said the Delhi government will set up 7,000 smart classrooms in its schools by the end of the year. She added that 175 digital libraries and 100 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Language Labs offering foreign language instruction in English, French, and German will also be made operational in the Delhi government-run schools. The CM made the announcements following a meeting she chaired with the principals of Delhi government schools in her Assembly constituency of Shalimar Bagh. ‘Intimidating parents’ In a social media post later in the day, she spoke about the “alarming reports of schools employing bouncers to intimidate parents and students”. “Education is a right, not a business. Our children deserve compassion, not coercion. Schools must remain spaces of learning, values, and nation-building,” the CM said. Her comments come a day after the Delhi High Court expressed dismay at the “reprehensible practice” by Delhi Public School, Dwarka, of allegedly hiring bouncers to block the entry of the students who had not paid the increased fee. Ms. Gupta hit out at the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for engaging in “propaganda about improving education” while “failing to provide” basic education infrastructure despite being in power for 11 years, citing the state of a government school in her constituency’s Haiderpur village. “The area neither has an English-medium school nor a higher secondary school where science is taught,” she said. The CM added, “Their much-celebrated school buildings were structurally weak — one built in 2018 deteriorated within just two years. This exposes their ‘education model’ and shows that it was merely a facade.” She said that many government schools lack proper sports grounds, face hygiene and security issues, and suffer from acute staff shortages.

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