A fire ripped through a hospital in saudi Arabia on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and injuring 123, the authorities said.
The blaze broke out in the intensive care unit and the maternity department of the Jazan General Hospital in the kingdom's south, the civil defence agency said on Twitter.
It said in an updade later that the fire had been extinguished and an investigation was under way into th cause.
Twenty-one teams of emergency workders had assisted in putting out the blaze in Jazan, th capital of Jizan province, it added
The teams were able to evacuate th echildren and patients from th intensive care unit without problem, the health ministry said on its Twitter account, but most casualties were on th ehospital's upper floors.
Unfortunately, th thick smoke from the fire spread into the upper floors of the hospital, leaving 25 dead and 123 injured, Health Minister Khalid al-Falih said in a statement carried by national news agency Spa
A previous toll had put the number of people injured in the fire at 107.
Alriyadh daily quoted a civil defence spokesman as saying the agency was alerted of the fire at 2:00 am (2300 GMT Wednesday)
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