NEW DELHI: At least 22 people have been killed in two separate fires in India, most of them patients who were trapped in the intensive care unit of a major hospital, officials said Tuesday.

More than 40 critically ill patients were in the ICU of a private hospital in the eastern state of Odisha when fire broke out on Monday night, apparently after an electric short circuit.

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