An elderly resident is transferred to an ambulance after a fire at Quakers Hill Nursing Home in Sydney after the fire on Friday . Photo / AAP
The death toll from Sydney's fatal nursing home fire has risen to eight, with the death of a 96-year-old woman.
Police said the woman, who was admitted to Blacktown Hospital Intensive Care Unit on Friday, died overnight from health complications from the fire.
Her death brings the number of fatalities
to eight.
The seventh victim, 82-year-old Ceasar Galea, died at Hawkesbury Hospital at 8.20am (AEDT) on Monday.
Three residents, including 73-year-old Alma Smith, died at the scene of the fire, which tore through the facility on Hambledon Road, Quakers Hill, early on Friday morning.
