Orphanage fire kills 15 children in Haiti

A fire at an orphanage in Haiti has killed 15 children, according to health care workers.

Staff at the Orphanage of the Church of Bible Understanding say the home – in the Kenscoff area, outside the capital, Port-au-Prince – had been using candles due to problems with its generator.

Seven of the victims were babies or toddlers and the rest were 10 or 11.

A civil protection official claimed rescuers arrived on motorcycles and did not have bottled oxygen or ambulances to take the children to hospital.

The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear.

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