Russia: 42 Die in Fire at Drug Treatment Hospital (New York


A fire tore through a Moscow drug treatment hospital while patients slept, killing 42 people, fire officials said. About 160 people were evacuated from the five-story Hospital No. 17 in southern Moscow, said a Moscow Fire Department spokesman, Yevgeny Bobylyov. He said firefighters had put out the blaze within an hour of the first call for help. The Itar-Tass news agency said the fire had burned