A fire at a nursing home in western Sri Lanka killed 12 residents and injured eight others, police said Thursday, after the blaze broke out late Wednesday in Anguruwatota town.
The deaths turned a local fire into a grim overnight disaster for people living in one building, with the victims all residents of the facility. The timing mattered because the toll was confirmed only on Thursday, after the fire had already torn through the home and left emergency responders dealing with both fatalities and injuries.
Anguruwatota sits in western Sri Lanka, and the setting made the scale of the loss harder to ignore: a nursing home, not a crowded public venue or factory floor, became the center of the incident. The report does not say what sparked the fire, leaving the cause unanswered even as the number of dead and injured became clear.
That missing detail is now the story’s sharpest gap. Until authorities explain how the blaze began, the only certain facts are that 12 residents died, eight others were hurt, and a late-night fire in a care home turned deadly before dawn could bring any relief.
