Home | 2 Business | 13 Sport | 22 Flower exhibition Qatar stock index England take on opens at farmers’ gains 345.80 points South Africa as KP market in Umm Salal past week predicts close game The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar FRIDAY 25 DECEMBER 2015 • 14 Rabia I 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6655 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com
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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir condoles with Saudi King on victims 25 die in Jizan hospital fire; probe to ascertain cause DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh a speedy recovery. the Maternity Department of the Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yes- At least 25 people died and 123 hospital in the south of the king- terday sent a cable to Custodian injured in the blaze, Qatar News dom, the Civil Defence Agency of the Two Holy Mosques King Agency reports. About 21 brigades tweeted. Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and security and service teams Later, in an update, it said the of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, arrived at the scene and the blaze had been extinguished and expressing deep condolences and injured were shifted to hospitals. an investigation was under way. sincere sympathy over the vic- Investigation was under way Twenty-one teams of emer- tims of a fire that broke out at to ascertain the cause of the fire, gency workers assisted in putting Jizan General Hospital. officials added. The Civil Defence out the blaze in Jizan, the capital The Emir prayed to the Directorate tweeted that the fire of the Jizan province, the agency Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani gives the command to Almighty God to bestow his was brought under control.