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.

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