Maxim Grigoriev TASS
At least 64 people, including many children, were killed in a deadly blaze that engulfed a shopping mall in Russia's industrial city of Kemerovo, the Emergencies Minister said on Monday.
Preliminary investigations point to the fire having broken out in the cinema hall area of the four-story Winter Cherry shopping mall in the center of Kemerovo.
The Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes in Russian Federation, said 10 people were being treated in hospital.
The investigative committee, which looks into high-profile crimes and reports directly to the president, Vladimir Putin, said as many as 35 people could be missing. A movie theater inside the mall collapsed, authorities said, raising the possibility that some of the missing remain trapped beneath the rubble.
The local office of Russia's emergency services ministry said the fire broke out on the top floor of the four-storey mall, causing floors and the roof to collapse.
"At this time, we can confirm the deaths of 37 people in the fire at the Kemerovo shopping centre", Russia's Investigative Committee said, according to TASS.
Four hundred people, mostly children and adolescents, were burned to ashes in an inferno in a shopping complex in August 2004 on the edge of the Paraguay capital, Asuncion.
"People started running around, it was just bad".
Maxim Grigoriev TASS
However, it quoted Vladimir Chernov, the region's deputy governor, as saying on Sunday that the blaze had started when a child had set fire to the foam on a trampoline in a play area using a lighter.
It was unclear if any people were still unaccounted for, but 11 people were being treated in hospital, including an 11-year-old boy who was in a serious condition. Some bodies will require genetic testing to identify, officials said.
Kemerovo is almost 2,000 miles east of Moscow. The disastrous blaze joins a long list of accidents, fires and sinkings in Russian Federation marked by apparent negligence beforehand and inept or insufficient response by emergency services.
She said investigators, who have opened a criminal investigation into the blaze, were looking into other possible violations.
News agencies said more than 100 people had been evacuated from the mall, which contains cinemas, restaurants and shops. Some 1,500 square metres of the 23,000 square metre mall were destroyed.
"She told me that everything was on fire, that all the doors were blocked", Yevgenia said, struggling to overcome her tears.
A petting zoo was among the centre's attractions.
The fire in Kemerovo is far from the first major fire disaster in Russian Federation in recent years. In 2015, a fire at a mall in Kazan took the lives of 19 people and injured 61.
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