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| Russian care home fire kills 23 | |
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| A fire that engulfed a retirement home south of Moscow has killed at least 23 people, emergency officials say. | |
| The blaze swept through the two-storey building on Sunday in the village of Velye Nikolskoye, about 30km (20 miles) from the city of Tula. | The blaze swept through the two-storey building on Sunday in the village of Velye Nikolskoye, about 30km (20 miles) from the city of Tula. |
| The building's wooden structures were not fire-proofed and it had no fire alarm, Viktor Beltsov of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said. | The building's wooden structures were not fire-proofed and it had no fire alarm, Viktor Beltsov of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said. |
| Ten people died in a fire at a Siberian retirement home in June. | Ten people died in a fire at a Siberian retirement home in June. |
| According to Mr Beltsov, at Velye Nikolskoye the alarm was raised late and the huge blaze raged for hours. It was finally put out on Sunday night, after 22 firefighting vehicles had rushed to the scene. | |
| It is not yet clear what triggered the fire. There are suspicions that an electrical short-circuit was to blame. |