Kyiv:
At least 15 persons have been killed and 11 injured in a fire in a nursing house in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian state emergency service mentioned on Thursday.
The fire broke out in the afternoon on the second floor of the two-storey constructing. There have been 33 persons inside, the service mentioned.
The service published a photo of the constructing with bars on the windows of the very first floor. Smoke could be observed billowing out of broken windows of the second floor.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the interior minister to open and take charge of an inquiry into the incident.
The Ukrainian prosecutor common mentioned authorities had launched a criminal investigation and the preliminary bring about of the tragedy was the “careless handling of electric heating devices”.
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