{"id":19495,"date":"2026-08-26T09:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=19495"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:17:32","slug":"15-newborns-die-in-fire-breaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/08\/26\/15-newborns-die-in-fire-breaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Newborns Die in Fire Breaks out at PIMS Nursery in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>15 Newborns Die in Fire Breaks out at PIMS Nursery in Islamabad<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: At least 15 newborn babies died after a fire broke out in the nursery of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, officials said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/pims.gov.pk\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PIMS<\/a> officials, 16 newborns were present in the nursery when the fire erupted. Rescue teams managed to save only one baby, while the remaining 15 newborns lost their lives in the tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue sources said the fire was triggered by an explosion involving an air-conditioner compressor inside the nursery.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams rushed to the hospital after receiving information about the blaze and brought the fire under control. Officials said cooling operations were subsequently carried out at the site to prevent the fire from reigniting.<\/p>\n<p>Further details about the incident and the circumstances surrounding the deaths were not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Newborns Die in Fire Breaks out at PIMS Nursery in Islamabad ISLAMABAD: At least 15 newborn babies died after a fire broke out in the nursery of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, officials said on Wednesday. According to PIMS officials, 16 newborns were present in the nursery when the fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2304,2297,2298],"tags":[4045],"class_list":["post-19495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-pims-hospital"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19497,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions\/19497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}