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. (25 June 1993)
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Bahnhofsvorplatz, Hornberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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