MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th January, 2021) Five people, including two children, have died as a result of a fire that hit a 9-story residential building in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, the regional emergency services told Sputnik.
"The fire erupted on the first floor of the 9-story building on the Belorusskaya Street. According to preliminary data, five people, including two children, have died," a spokesperson for the emergency services said on late Wednesday.
The blaze has been extinguished, according to the spokesperson.
Several people have been hospitalized as a result of the fire. Causes of the incident remain unknown.
