An NIAS spokesperson said that following assessment and initial treatment at the scene, three patients were taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and two were taken to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.

After months of being stranded in a Saudi Arabian hospital, Asmah Mansor's story took a miraculous turn when a RM575,000 air ambulance, funded largely by concerned Malaysians, brought the 71-year-old home to her waiting family.

The blaze erupted in the ambulance on Modasa-Dhansura road at around 1 am when the one-day-old boy, who was sick after birth, was being taken to a private hospital in Ahmedabad from a Modasa-based hospital for further treatment,