The blaze broke out in the intensive care and maternity wards at Jazan General Hospital in the south-west port city of Jazan shortly before dawn, the Saudi civil defence agency said.
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That fire was ignited by an electric short circuit in the underground parking where 130 cars were parked, the civil defence agency had said.
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Government-controlled al-Ekhbariya television interviewed a witness who said the cause of the fire seemed to be electrical, and that it took only three minutes to sweep through the hospital.
Details of the fire and its victims were not readily available, but pictures published on social media showed a severe blaze and smoke billowing from the hospital. The discrepancy could not immediately be reconciled but it is not unusual in the aftermath of large disasters.
The injured had been transferred to private and general hospitals in the area, it added.
All babies in incubators were rescued, the health ministry said.
The oil-rich kingdom spent hundreds of billions of dollars at home in the past decade to bolster its economy and dole out subsidies that provide cheap energy and food for its 30 million people, as it enjoyed years of high crude prices.
“The kingdom is committed to implementing programmes to diversify sources of income and decrease dependence on oil as a main source of revenue”, Salman said in the text of his annual address to the Shura Council setting out policy goals. It is also dealing with a war in neighbouring Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition of mostly Arab, U.S.-backed nations carrying out an airstrikes campaign and offensive against the Yemeni Shiite rebels’ power grab.
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Notably absent from his speech was any reference to the hajj disaster.
