Jaipur, Oct 6: At least six critical patients, including two women, died when a fire broke out at the trauma centre of Jaipur’s state-run Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital late on Sunday night.

According to officials, the deceased were identified as Pintu from Sikar, Dilip and Bahadur from Jaipur, Shrinath, Rukmini, and Khurma - all six of them from Bharatpur.

While some reports claimed that eight patients died in the fire, Dr Anurag Dhakad, Trauma centre in-charge and hospital superintendent Dr Sushil Bhati maintained that the number of deaths was six.

"Six of them, two women and four men, died in the incident. Fourteen other patients were admitted in a different ICU, and all were successfully evacuated to safer locations," Dhakad said.

Dr Dhakad futher explained 11 patients were being

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