Saturday, August 27, 2016

Suffocation in a dream: a fire in a warehouse in Moscow killed 17 people – RIA Novosti

27.08.2016

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MOSCOW, Aug. 27 – RIA Novosti. A fire in one of the storage space on Altufyevskoe highway led to the deaths of 17 people in Moscow. Preliminary cause of the tragedy, investigators believe a short circuit

The fire in the building at the address:. Altufevskoe highway, 5 began about eight in the morning. Area fire was about a hundred square meters, he was awarded the second grade of difficulty.

According to a source in the emergency services of the capital, the building was a warehouse printing products LLC “Printed Express”. Eyewitnesses said that before the fire did not notice anything suspicious – there was no noise or pops

The fire was liquidated in two and a half hours

Large fire in a warehouse in Moscow. Shooting Eyewitness

Suffocation during sleep

Rescuers found in the sleeping room on the fourth floor of a burning sixteen man body building. The room turned out to be blocked for access to his rescuers had to open the wall

“All suffocated from the dream of smoke” -. Said the RIA Novosti source in the emergency services

Twelve people were rescued, four more victims. He was taken to the intensive care unit of the Institute Sklifosovsky Ambulance. Later it became known that one of the evacuees died. Thus, the number of victims has reached 17.

According to the operational headquarters on the site of disaster, all the dead were citizens of Kyrgyzstan. As reported by RIA Novosti in the management of migration Research Affairs in Moscow, they were in Moscow legally -. Citizens of the EurAsEC member states do not need to obtain permits for employment in Russia

Later, the representative of the Foreign Ministry of Kyrgyzstan reported that citizens They are 14 of the 17 dead

Most of the victims -. a girl who worked in a warehouse, eyewitnesses, some of whom are employees of the company. According to them, not all of them are working under labor contracts. One of the victims was 16, they added.

One of the company’s employees said that came from work at 7.46 am. He and several other employees had to leave the room through the window. They stayed at the building watched the scene.

According to a witness, the girl left the warehouse, called for help, but the fire at this time engaged in the salvation of the building, and the girls and the others remained in the room had to go by employees and another man came up to the scene.

According to another eyewitness, he was from the embrace of the fire building called his pregnant wife, and calling for help.

Short?

Emergency Ministry employees found that the fire started in the annexe, and then fire on the freight elevator shaft has spread to the second floor. Also, they were able to establish that the fire was the source of light. In the MOE said that the exact cause of the fire will determine the examination.

Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of deliberate destruction of property, committed on imprudence entailed death of a person. Investigators are considering different versions of a fire, including household and technical.

“As a priority fire version is considered shorted lamp It happened near the loading and unloading zone.” -. Said RIA Novosti senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigation Department Julia Ivanova

Later in the UK reported that version is not arson confirmed. At the scene investigators and forensic work, as well as employees of operational services. Investigators set the persons responsible for fire safety in the building.

The Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin sent his condolences to relatives of those killed and injured, as well as confidence in the fact that those responsible for the state of emergency would be found and punished.

The Prosecutor of Moscow Vladimir Churikov took personal control of the investigation. The Moscow prosecutor’s office will check the fire safety and enforcement of labor laws in stock. To coordinate the actions of law enforcement bodies at the scene left Moscow prosecutor and his deputy Oleg Kamshilov.

It is also the place of the fire officers arrived Kyrgyz Embassy and representatives of the diaspora.

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