Kozlovichi Mental Asylum
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Kozlovichi Mental Asylum was an institution for the mentally ill in , near , Grodno Province, Belarus. The wooden construction housing the building was built in 1905 and destroyed by fire on October 12, 2003. The fire killed thirty patients.[1]
Fire[]
Although President Alexander Lukashenko's spokeswoman, , said that a patient (among those who died in the fire), described as a pyromaniac who had twice previously tried to set fire to the building, was responsible for the blaze, government investigators were also looking into staff carelessness as a possible cause. Staff members, some of whom had been sleeping in a separate building on the campus, apparently tried to put the fire out and rescue patients themselves, waiting to call the fire department.
References[]
- ^ Karmanau, Yuras (October 12, 2003). "30 Killed in Belarus Mental Hospital Fire". AP News. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- Hospitals in Belarus
- Hospitals established in 1905
- Psychiatric hospitals