Uruguay’s Interior Ministry has reported that 10 seniors were killed in a Sunday morning fire at their residence. All died from smoke inhalation, a 20-year-old employee was able to escape.Uruguay’s Interior Ministry on Sunday reported that 10 senior citizens were killed when a fire broke out in their six-room nursing home in the city of Treinta y Tres, some 290 kilometers (180 miles) northeast of the capital Montevideo.
The cause of the fire, which reportedly broke out in the facility’s living room, is unknown at the moment.
One 20-year-old female employee is said to have escaped through the building’s garage.
