Five people, including two teenagers, died, and seven were injured in a fire that broke out in a company dormitory in southwest Siberia’s Omsk Region, the press service of the regional branch of the Russian Investigative Department said on Sunday, TASS reports.
"Today, at about 5:30 local time (02:30 Moscow time) a five-storey dormitory for employees in the Omsk suburb of Novomoskovsky caught fire. According to initial estimates, five people died, including two minors aged 13 and 14, seven people were injured," the department said.
The region’s health authority said three of the injured were hospitalized, including two in critical condition. Omsk Region Prosecutor’s Office has launched a probe into the incident.
