President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has arrived at the scene of a fire that broke out at a Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Baku’s Khatai district on Friday morning.

The head of state was given information about the accident.

The fire has already been extinguished.

Scores of people are reported to have died and been injured.

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According to preliminary data, up to 25 people died after a fire broke out in Azerbaijan's Drug Abuse Treatment Center, the Forensic Medical Examination and Pathologic Anatomy Unit of Health Ministry told.

Four injured were hospitalized. Three of them were placed in the Toxicology Department of the Clinical Medical Center No 1 and one in the City Clinical Hospital No 3.

The fire broke out in the Republican Drug Abuse Treatment Center in the March 2 morning.