A hospital patient has been arrested in Taiwan on suspicion of starting a fire that killed 12 people and injured 60.
The blaze began before dawn on Tuesday at Beimen nursing facility in southern Tainan city.
The hospital held 115 patients including a number in their 90s, several of whom had to escape the dense smoke-filled building on their own.
Closed-circuit TV footage taken moments after the blaze broke out showed hospital staff scrambling to put out the fire, while elderly patients struggled to escape in their wheelchairs.
The blaze began before dawn (Pic: IBTimes) The 67-year-old man, whose surname is Lin, said he lit tissue papers and threw them into a storage room full of clothes because he was upset that he was seriously ill, explained prosecutor Tseng Chao-kai.
The alleged arsonist, who reportedly has colon and bladder cancer, was found by police several hours later in an empty house near the hospital with a lighter in his pocket.
The man, who is considered a flight risk, apparently tried to destroy evidence. The prosecutor said he could face murder and arson charges.
The nursing home is now a burnt-out shell The cause of all the deaths was smoke inhalation, with 58 of the injured still in hospital, health authorities said.
"The interior ministry will require all medical facilities to follow fire regulations and enhance fire drills so they can learn a lesson from the Beimen hospital fire," interior minister Lee Hong-yuan said later.
Mr Lee added that insufficient staffing at the hospital was also a problem, as there were only six workers on night duty for the 70 bed-ridden patients.
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