TIVAOUANE, Senegal — Police were on guard and nearby residents and parents stood mourning outside a hospital in Senegal where a fire in the neonatal unit killed 11 newborns. Only three infants could be saved, President Macky Sall said, before calling on Thursday for three days of mourning for the young lives lost.
Mamadou Mbaye, who witnessed the fire Wednesday at the Abdoul Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in Tivaouane, a town 75 miles northeast of the capital, Dakar, told The Associated Press that conditions inside the hospital were "atrocious."
