23/10/2012 17:30
Fire in Taiwan killed 12
The fire started in the early hours in a nursing facility housing mainly bed-bound patients in Tainan city.
An earlier official estimate had reported there were 72 injured, but this was revised down in a health department statement.
A fire official said the blaze could have started in a storage room on the second floor of the five-storey building - part of the public Sinying Hospital.
The cause of all the deaths is believed to be smoke inhalation, while the injured were rushed to a dozen hospitals for treatment.
Television footage showed the burnt-out second floor of the building and bed and wheelchair-bound patients being carried out on to the hospital lawn.