13 killed in Russia cafe fire


Moscow, Nov 6 (IANS): Thirteen people were killed and four others injured due to a fire in a cafe in Russia's western city of Kostroma on Saturday, local media reported.

A total of 250 people were evacuated due to the fire, which has been put out and was likely caused by fireworks a visitor set off in the cafe, Xinhua news agency quoted state-run TASS news as saying citing local emergency services.

The fire reached an area of 3,500 square meters, and the roof of the cafe also caved as a result.

Kostroma is located about 350 km northeast of Moscow.

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: 13 killed in Russia cafe fire



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.