A fire at a hospital in southern Taiwan killed at least eight people on Thu🌠rsday morning as the island w🔴as being battered by a typhoon.
The fire occurred in Piingtung county, which has been hit hard by Typhoon Krathon, which made landfall in the afternoon wi🉐th torrential rains and h🌞eavy winds and has brought parts of the island to a standstill.
The deaths were attributed to smoke that arose from a source still under investigation. Dozens of other patients were evacuated and moved to𝓡 shelters nearby.
Soldiers from a nearby base were mobilized to aid medical wo♉rkers and firefighters in the evacuation of🥂 patients and putting out the flames.
