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Two of the babies injured mid-August in a maternity fire in Romania’s capital Bucharest will be released from hospital Wednesday, after 30 days of intensive care treatment, doctors said.

Romanian prosecutors Friday detained for 24 hours the head of the technical department of the Giulesti maternity hospital in capital Bucharest, Vasile Dima, in a criminal file investigating the accident that took place in the hospital’s intensive care unit last week.

One of the seven babies admitted to Grigore Alexandrescu children hospital in Bucharest after they have been severely injured in an explosion at Giulesti maternity hospital died Wednesday night, taking the death toll among babies to five.

Ten Israeli doctors arrived in Bucharest to help the seven Romanian newborn babies severely injured in an explosion which took place Monday at the Giulesti maternity hospital, Bucharest Hospital Administration general manager Marius Savu said Wednesday.

One of the eight newborn babies severely injured in the explosion at the Giulesti maternity hospital in Bucharest died Tuesday morning, at the Grigore Alexandrescu children hospital, taking the death toll among babies to four, Health Ministry undersecretary Raed Arafat said Tuesday.