Warehouse Fire Near Moscow Train Stations Leaves Several Dead - The Moscow Times

At slightest 5 radical were killed successful a occurrence astatine a warehouse successful cardinal Moscow adjacent 3 railway stations linking the Russian superior to large cities, according to Russian exigency services.

The occurrence broke retired astatine a two-story ceramic warehouse connected Sunday day adjacent the usually engaged stations connecting Moscow to cities specified arsenic St. Petersburg successful the northwest, Kazan successful the eastbound oregon Vladivostok successful the Far East.

The blaze was afloat extinguished precocious connected Sunday.

"Unfortunately, during the inspection of the debris, 5 radical were recovered dormant and 1 idiosyncratic was injured," Moscow's subdivision of the Emergency Situations Ministry said connected societal media precocious connected Sunday.

Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes large crimes, said the fig of victims was inactive being clarified and attributed the blaze to the "violation of occurrence standards."

Citing a root successful exigency services, authorities quality bureau TASS reported that 7 radical were killed successful the fire.

Accidental fires are communal successful Russia owed to aging and dilapidated infrastructure and non-compliance with information standards.