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Russian Hospital fire: Surgeons perform heart operation during blaze   

A medical team at a Russian hospital successfully completed open-heart surgery on a patient while firefighters battled to contain a serious blaze engulfing the old building's roof.

The surgery continued thanks to an emergency electricity cable run into the ground-floor operating theatre as fans kept the smoke out. The heart patient was evacuated later.