Eleven newborns died this Wednesday when a hospital in the Senegalese city of

Tivaouane , in the west of the country, burned down, President

Macky Sall

reported this morning .

The fire broke out in the neonatal department of the

Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital

in Tivaouane.

"I have just learned with pain and dismay of the death of 11 newborns in the fire," the Senegalese president wrote on his Twitter account, while expressing his

sorrow to the mothers of the babies and their families.

According to local media, the fire could be due to a

short circuit

.

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