‘No one can understand the pain:’ Fire in maternity ward kills at least 14 newborn babies in Pakistan’s capital
The fire broke out inside the maternity ward at the government-run Pakistan Institute for Medical Sciences (PIMS), the largest hospital in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, around seven am local time.
Police officers move past an ambulance outside an intensive care unit after a fire broke out at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, August 26, 2026.
Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Islamabad, Pakistan — At least 14 newborn babies died Wednesday morning in one of Pakistan’s deadliest hospital fires in recent decades.
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