A fire at Damascus Adra's prison

A fire erupted on late night Thursday in one of the pavilions of Adra prison near Damascus.

The Interior ministry police in the pavilion could control the fire and prevented it from extending and covering other pavilions and later the fire was completely controlled.

The residents of the pavilions, totaled 1500 were evacuated and taken to other pavilions with no one of them damaged except three who fainted because of inhaling the smoke of the fire. They were admitted to Douma hospital and they are in good health conditions.

The minister of the Interior Muhammad Harba arrived at the center of the prison and supervised the operation of controlling the fire and evacuating the prisoners.

Preliminary investigations showed that the reasons behind the fire is an electricity short in one of the pavilions in which periodical maintenance works are made.