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Friday 25th of June 1993

31 Years Ago



20 Die in private psychiatric hospital fire in Clinique Saint-François-d'Assise, Haut-Carcé, Bruz, Bretagne, France.

All the patients, mostly depressed young women, were severely sedated and locked up behind barred windows. 30 patients were heavily burned. The fire started when a nurse, who also died in the disaster, helped escape a patient who set fire to solitary confinement room 22 and forgot to close the door.