The death toll rose to 29 on Wednesday from a fire at a Beijing hospital that was one of the Chinese capital's deadliest in at least two decades, killing 26 patients and wounding dozens.
Social media showed dramatic videos of people using tied bed sheets to climb down the walls to escape smoke and flames after the fire broke out at Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday.
All but three of the 29 dead were patients, officials told a media briefing on Wednesday, with the fire having been put out in half an hour. Authorities are investigating Beijing's deadliest fire since at least 2002, when a blaze at an internet cafe killed 25. By Wednesday, many social media posts critical about the fire on WeChat had been either censored or deleted, Reuters checks showed.
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