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A fire at a nursing home on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island resulted in over a dozen fatalities, with three individuals sustaining burns, according to a local official Monday. Firefighters responded to the blaze around 8:31 p.m. Sunday at a care facility in Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province, stated Jimmy Rotinsulu, head of the city’s fire and rescue service.
“Sixteen people died; three suffered burn injuries,” he told AFP. Many victims’ bodies were discovered inside their rooms, with Jimmy noting that most elderly residents were probably resting in their rooms at the time the fire started.
Authorities successfully evacuated 12 residents—who were unharmed—and transported them to a nearby hospital. Local broadcaster Metro TV broadcast footage showing the fire consuming the facility while community members helped evacuate an elderly person.
Incidents like this are not uncommon in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago with more than 17,000 islands. Recently, a seven-story office building in Jakarta was gutted by a fire that claimed at least 22 lives. In 2023, at least 12 people died in the eastern part of the country following an explosion at a nickel processing plant.
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