Director of Changfeng hospital among those detained after deadliest fire in China’s capital since 2002

Chinese authorities have said they have detained a dozen people over a hospital fire in Beijing that left at least 29 dead and forced desperate survivors to jump out of windows to escape.

The fire, which broke out on Tuesday afternoon at the Changfeng hospital in China’s capital, killed mostly patients, and left scores of other people injured.

Some managed to escape from multi-storey building by fashioning bedsheets into makeshift ropes

A fire at a hospital in Beijing has killed at least 29 people and forced dozens to evacuate, a Chinese government official has said.

As clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky late on Tuesday, people trapped in the multi-storey building apparently tied bedsheets into makeshift ropes and escaped by climbing out of windows, as seen in videos circulating on social media.