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Najib visits fire victims of religious school at HKL

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The prime minister says he is confident doctors at the hospital are doing their best to treat the fire victims.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Najib Razak says Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) doctors are doing their best to treat four victims injured in the fire at the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah Tahfiz Centre here in which 23 people died on Thursday.

The prime minister spent some time visiting the victims today upon his arrival here after attending the Malaysia Day celebration in Kota Kinabalu yesterday.

“I visited the four victims of the fire just now…I find they are in very good care. The doctors in HKL are doing their best. The doctors are of the opinion, the victims have a good chance of recovery.

“However, the recovery process is quite slow. Let us together pray they will recover,” he said when met by reporters.

Also present were the prime minister’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Jamil Khir Baharom and Malaysian Islamic Development Department director-general Othman Mustapha.

Najib said two of the burn patients were able to speak but two others were still unable to, due to the severity of their injuries.

“The two other victims were heavily sedated and breathing through a ventilator because of excessive smoke in their lungs. They were not able to talk.”

In the pre-dawn fire on Thursday, 21 students and two teachers at the Tahfiz school in Datuk Keramat here were killed after they were trapped on the third floor of the three-storey building.

Seven others were injured and admitted to HKL. Three of them were discharged last night.

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