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On 2 March 2018, a fire broke out at the Republican Narcological Dispensary in Baku, Azerbaijan, a drug rehabilitation facility for patients with opiate addiction.
Around 200 people including patients and members of the clinic staff had to be evacuated from the area, while 34 had to be rescued from the blazing building.[3] At least 26 people died,[1] and another four were hospitalized.[2] Although the fire was initially blamed on faulty wiring, it later emerged that the fire had actually started when a patient tried to commit suicide by self-immolation. The individual had second thoughts and tossed his burning blanket into the wooden ward, igniting the early morning inferno.
Two days after the incident the authorities arrested former patient Mahammad Mammadov and charged him with murder and arson, among other crimes. Civil rights activists blamed government corruption for lax fire safety measures in the facility that may have led to the accident. In the aftermath, President Ilham Aliyev created a commission to investigate the underlying causes of the accident and announced plans to build a fully equipped rehabilitation centre nearby.
^ abBaynes, Chris. "Azerbaijan fire: Blaze kills 26 people at drug abuse treatment centre in Baku". The Independent. Archived from the original on 5 March 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
^ ab"25 dead in Azerbaijan drug rehab center fire". AFP. 2 March 2018. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
^"Drug rehab centre in Azerbaijan catches fire, killing at least 25 | CBC News". CBC. Archived from the original on 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
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