Serious fire occurred on Monday morning in one of the nine storey buildings in Vladivostok. According to Civil Defense and Emergency respond headquarter information, as a result of fire 7 people died, 5 of them died having jumped off the windows of the building on fire, two people died in resuscitation wards. The fire occurred at about 4.00 a.m. Moscow time on one of the upper stores of the building. The fire blocked the exits, and trying to get out of the burning rooms people were jumping off the windows. Injured people have been hospitalized.
The Prosecutor?s Office staff are working at the scene, informs the Primorie region prosecutor-general chief assistant.
The investigation group is headed by the Primorie region deputy prosecutor Sergei Luchaninov.
By the present time the fire has been extinguished. The number of victims is being made more exact.
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