Unregistered Sri Lankan Nursing Home Lies in Ruins as Toll From Deadly Fire Rises to 13
Officials said the unregistered home was overcrowded, with 71 residents living in space for about 15 people, as investigators probe the cause.
- On Friday, the death toll from a fire at an unregistered nursing home in Western Sri Lanka rose to 13 after another victim succumbed to injuries at a hospital in Anguruwatota.
- Employee Dhanuja Chathuranga, 32, suspects an electric short circuit in a water pump wire sparked the blaze at a facility severely overcrowded with 71 residents in space designed for 15 people.
- Fifty residents were rescued by neighbors, firefighters, and Police; Associated Press footage shows the gutted Anguruwatota building abandoned with glasses cases, medicines, and charred furniture strewn throughout.
- The home's director appeared before a court on Thursday and was ordered detained for a week while Police investigate the incident following his arrest on suspicion of negligence-related deaths.
- Chathura Mihudum, director of Sri Lanka's National Secretariat for Elders, confirmed the facility was unregistered and had been warned to follow Government laws and guidelines before the disaster.
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GALPATHA, Sri Lanka (AP) - The site of the deadly fire at an unregistered nursing home for people with mental illnesses in Western Sri Lanka lay abandoned Friday as the death toll rose from 12 to 13 after one of the injured succumbed to injuries at the hospital, an official said. Glasses cases, medicines and reclining chairs lay strewn around the burned-out shell of the home in Anguruwatota, a small town about 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast …
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