The fire was localized.
MOSCOW, September 16.
/TASS/. Eight people, including four children, were killed in a fire at a
residential apartment building in the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk late
on Sunday night, the press office of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported.
"A fire broke
out at 22:26 Moscow time in a residential apartment building on the Gusarova
Street in Krasnoyarsk," the press office stated. "The first fire
emergency response unit, which arrived at the scene eight minutes after the
call about the fire, discovered an open flame coming from a window on the third
floor of the building."
"After the fire
was put out, bodies of eight people, including four children, were discovered
at the scene of the incident," the Emergencies Ministry’s press office
added.
The fire, which
engulfed an area of 40 square meters, was localized at 23:04 Moscow time and
was put out half an hour later. Investigators work at the scene to establish
the cause of the fire.
A source in the local
law enforcement bodies told TASS that Vasily Fedortsov, a prosecutor from the
nearby town of Lesosibirsk, and his family died in the fire.
"A prosecutor
from Lesosibirsk, his family and the family of his sister died in the
fire," the source said.
The Russian
Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on counts of infliction of
death by negligence.
Source: ITAR-TASS
16-09-2019
