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| 17 dead in huge fire at Moscow warehouse (VIDEO, PHOTOS) | 17 dead in huge fire at Moscow warehouse (VIDEO, PHOTOS) |
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| Sixteen people have been confirmed dead since a fire engulfed a printing office warehouse in the northeast of Moscow, the Emergency Ministry said. One of the victims sent to hospital has died there, the Moscow mayor said. | Sixteen people have been confirmed dead since a fire engulfed a printing office warehouse in the northeast of Moscow, the Emergency Ministry said. One of the victims sent to hospital has died there, the Moscow mayor said. |
| “As the fire was being extinguished, the staff found a room cut off by the fire,” the press service of the Emergencies Ministry for the Moscow region told TASS. | “As the fire was being extinguished, the staff found a room cut off by the fire,” the press service of the Emergencies Ministry for the Moscow region told TASS. |
| “Fire-fighters broke through the wall and found 16 bodies there,” it said. | “Fire-fighters broke through the wall and found 16 bodies there,” it said. |
| Moscow authorities and law enforcement officials will look into the cause of the blaze, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin promised in a post on Twitter. | Moscow authorities and law enforcement officials will look into the cause of the blaze, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin promised in a post on Twitter. |
| “А fire occurred on Altyevskoye highway. Unfortunately, there are a lot of victims. We’ll be investigating with the law enforcement bodies.” | “А fire occurred on Altyevskoye highway. Unfortunately, there are a lot of victims. We’ll be investigating with the law enforcement bodies.” |
| The Emergencies Ministry has reported that twelve people were rescued from the fire. | The Emergencies Ministry has reported that twelve people were rescued from the fire. |
| According to preliminary version, all victims died in their sleep, due to inhaling toxic fumes from the fire, according to a source cited by RIA Novosti news agency. | |
| One of the victims sent to hospital has died there, Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin posted on Twitter. | One of the victims sent to hospital has died there, Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin posted on Twitter. |
| Moscow officials said all of the fire victims were from Kyrgyztan, a country located in Central Asia that used to be one of the Soviet republics. | |
| The fire began during a shift change, so the victims weren’t sleeping, as was reported earlier, but had, rather, arrived early in the morning, according to a law enforcement source quoted by TASS news agency. | |
| The blaze was reportedly ignited by a lamp in a loading area. | |
| “We couldn’t save some of the workers because they went to a remote room from which you can’t escape, and died inhaling combustion gases,” vice head of the Moscow Emergencies Ministry, Leonid Belyayev, told TASS. | |
| Another source in the Emergencies Ministry told Interfax that the victims may actually have gotten lost in the building due to the smoky conditions while trying to escape. |