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Show 10A The Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday, April 28, 1985 Fire in Mental Hospital Trapped Many in Beds BUENOS The spokesman said the injured were taken to 10 hospitals around the city, and those patients who escaped s unharmed were placed in other or were being cared for by relatives. A news report by the state-ruagency Tclam, quoting unidentified sources, said a kitchen worker told authorities the fire was started by a patient with a history of pyromania. AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Federal police said Saturday that 79 people perished and 247 were injured when flames swept through a private mental hospital, trapping many patients in their beds. Other victims were killed when y they leaped from windows in the building to escape the fire and insiti-tution- n six-stor- smoke. nearby resident told of heroism by young passersby, who broke down doors to carry out patients and stricken employees. , Police and firO department investigators said the cause of the fire at the Saint Emillon Neuropsychiatric Institute in the suburban neighborhood of Saavedra has not been determined. "We have not ruled out the possibility that it was started by a patient", said a spokesman at the federal police headquarter's press office. As fire officials raised questions about safety features in the building, police said they had placed the hospital's director and' administrator in custody until they could be questioned by a judge probing the cause of the fire. They did not identify either man, but local news media said the director was Omar de la Azar. The police spokesman said the federal police command had confirmed 79 deaths and 247 injuries. Other police and judicial officials put the death count at 61, and there was no immediate explanation for the A The patients, including many old people, suffered from a variety of mental ailments, ranging from senility to psychotic disorders and drug addiction. Precinct Police Chief Gaston Pita said 407 patients and dozens of nurses and other workers were in the blue-tilebrick building when the fire started. Authorities at the scene said the fire broke out on the first floor about 9 p.m., after most of the patients had gone to bed. It quickly spread to the upper floors, which were the heaviest damaged. "A nurse, wrapped in a mattress, jumped from the sixth floor and was killed, said Irene Castro, 24, who lives nearby. Police later identified the nurse as Beatrix Bustos, 34 Twelve fire companies were called to the scene and fought for three hours to bring the fire under control. Like nearly all Buenos Aires buildings, the hospital had no outside fire escapes. Change Protest Tactics, Speakers Ask At Mass Funerals for Riot Victims Iraq Says Jets Attack Ship Near Oil Port JOHANNESBURG. South Africa Thousands of blacks thronged (AP) to two mass funerals Saturday for 26 victims of racial rioting, and speakers pleaded with them to stop venting their hatred of rule on fellow blacks. Police said four blacks, including a girl, died in new incidents of violence Friday and Saturday. At Zwide and Kwanobuhle, neigheastboring shantytowns in riot-tor- n Lebanon (UPI) Iraqi warplanes bombed a vessel near Irans Kharg Island oil terminal Saturday and Iraqi troops destroyed seven boats carrying Iranian soldiers in marshlands along their border, the Iraqi military said. An Iraqi military statement said the warplanes carried out an air raid on a very large naval target near Kharg Island at midday. "The target was directly hit and all the warplanes returned safely to base," the statement said. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the attack the 66th air strike on Gulf shipping claimed by Iraq this year. Iran had no official comment on the Iraqi reports. Iraqi officials usually use the expression "a very large naval target" to describe an oil tanker. The operation was part of Iraq's strict measures to halt the enemy oil supplies, the official Iraqi News Agency quoted the military statement saying. Iraq declared a blockade around Kharg Island in February BEIRUT, white-minorit- y ern Cape Province, mourners gathered for the second round of mass funerals in two weeks. A house divided against itself cannot stand, the Rev. Daniel Soga, head of a ministers association, told 50,000 mourners at Zwide. "We may differ ideologically, but at this time we cannot fight among ourselves. This makes our enemy laugh." Most Killed by Police Most of the 15 victims buried at Zwide and the 11 at Kwanobuhe were killed by police. The youngest, Sandra Masabalala, 14, died from exposure tear gas, friends and family members said. All the victims were in their teens or 20s, except for Malimi Matheza, a laborer from Zwide. Police said a girl, whose identity was not immediately available, was killed Saturday when a fire bomb was tossed inside a house owned by a black township councilor in Joza, near the university town of Grahamstown. Councilors who serve on white-ru- n to 1984. The siege was designed to bring economic pressure on Iran to per- suade Tehran to halt the 4 Persian Gulf war, but commercial shippers have said Iraq would have to sink a tanker a day to stop them from taking the risk. It was the fourth such raid reported by Iraq this week. township administration boards are often targets of black violence. Dozens have quit or gone into hiding since riots began last Au- and chanted, "A hurt to one is a hurt gust. furled. An estimated 8,000 people attended the services in Kwanobuhe. Black mobs in the eastern Cape have set upon dozens of blacks viewed as collaborators, hacking them to death or setting them on fire. Incidents of violence also have been Fired at Mob Police said a black man was killed and three were wounded when a black policeman fired a shotgun at a mob attacking his home near 450 miles south of JohannesCra-doc- burg. Late Friday, police said, they shot and killed a man who was stoning police vehicles in Kwazekele, near Port Elizabeth, and a black man's body was discovered under a burning pyre of car tires. No violence was reported at the Saturday funerals. Police and army units in combat gear were stationed with armored personnel carriers on the outskirts of Zwide, near Port Elizabeth, and Kwanobuhle, further inland, but did not enter. Pleading for peace, Soga, president of the Ministers Association of South Africa, told mourners at Zwide, I remind you who live by the gun, you will die by the same weap-on- . 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