Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus work in a burnt-out room on the ground floor of the Marienkrankenhaus hospital in the Hohenfelde district of Hamburg, Germany Sunday, June 1, 2025.
BERLIN (AP) -- Three patients were killed and many people were injured, two of them critically, in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in the German city of Hamburg, authorities said Sunday.
Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the hospital, the Marienkrankenhaus, shortly after midnight. It broke out in a room in the geriatric ward, on the ground floor of the building, and spread to the facade of the floor above. Smoke spread across the building's four floors.