Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - A fire broke out in an apartment in an old people's home in the Münster district of Stuttgart.

The emergency services were alerted late on Friday afternoon, as the control center in Stuttgart announced.

Several residents of the home were still in their apartments.

The emergency services brought people outside.

16 victims were handed over to the ambulance service, three of them received medical care and came to a clinic.

The fire was extinguished after a short time.