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The Bucharest Court Thursday ruled to release from arrest nurse Florentina Cirstea charged with manslaughter in the case involving a fire in the Giulesti hospital’s maternity ward in August this year.

Romanian nurse Florentina Cirstea, charged with manslaughter in the deaths of six premature newborns killed in a fire at a Bucharest maternity, will remain under arrest after the Bucharest Court on Thursday admitted prosecutors’ appeal to a lower court decision to temporarily release Cirstea.

A Bucharest court on Monday ruled to release from custody nurse Florentina Cirstea, on duty on August 16 at the Giulesti maternity when a fire broke out, leaving three babies dead and eight others severely injured.

A Bucharest court on Wednesday extended by another month the preventive arrest warrant for the nurse on duty on August 16 at the Giulesti maternity when a fire broke out, leaving three babies dead and eight others severely injured.

Romanian prosecutors on Monday said nurse Florentina Carstea at the Giulesti Maternity Hospital in Bucharest has been charged with murder in the deaths of five newborns killed in a fire in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

An 84-year old woman from the southeastern Romanian town of Cernavoda was pronounced dead after suffering a stroke. Later, the flashes used by the police officers on the scene seemed to bother the deceased, who was soon found to be alive.