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Global Headlines Four children killed, 2 other people injured in Siberia fire: Russian Emergencies Ministry
Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 16 Mar 2021, 10:09 pm Print
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Krasnoyarsk/Sputnik: Four children were killed, another child and an adult were injured in a fire in an apartment building in the Russian town of Lesosibirsk, Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, the regional department of the Emergencies Ministry told reporters.
"A fire occurred in a two-story 18-apartment residential building. As a result of the fire, six people were injured. Four of them died (children aged two, five, ten, 17 years old), two people were injured, one of them was a 12-year-old child. The fire was localized on the area of 60 square meters," the department said.
A total of 37 people and 14 pieces of equipment are involved in efforts to extinguish the fire.
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