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25/04/2021 GMT

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A fire has swept through a hospital treating coronavirus patients in the Iraqi capital

A fire has swept through a hospital treating coronavirus patients in the Iraqi capital.

Three days of mourning have been declared in Iraq after a fire engulfed a Baghdad hospital treating coronavirus patients, killing at least twenty three people and injuring dozens more. The fire - reportedly caused by an exploding oxygen tank - tore through an intensive care ward, with patients on ventilators unable to move.

Also in the programme: The number of new Covid cases in India has set another global record; and we look ahead to Sunday night's delayed Oscar ceremony.

Joining Celia Hatton on Weekend is Torrey Taussig, a research director in the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Michael Peel, the European diplomatic correspondent based in Brussels for the Financial Times newspaper.

(Picture: A medical worker at Ibn Khatib hospital after a fire caused by an oxygen tank explosion. Credit: Reuters)

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