Fire at Moscow shopping mall injures 18 people

Fire at Moscow shopping mall injures 18 people

Fourteen people remain in hospitals, with four of them in serious condition, after a massive fire broke out at a shopping mall in the northeast of Moscow on Monday, a source in the city’s emergencies services said.

"According to updated information, a total of 15 people had been hospitalized and one child was discharged. Fourteen people remain in hospitals and four of them are in serious condition, while ten are in moderate condition," TASS cited the source as saying.

A total of 18 people were hurt in the blaze and three of them received outpatient treatment.

The fire started in a textile shop on the underground floor at the Rio shopping mall on Dmitrovskoe Highway on Monday afternoon. The blaze was extinguished some six hours later.

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