“According to preliminary data, four 4 people died as a result of a hot water pipe break,” RIA Novosti quotes a representative of the Ministry of Territorial Security of the Perm Territory.

According to TASS, citing the press service of the governor of the Perm Territory, three more people received burns.

It is noted that at the scene of the tragedy is the head of the region Maxim Reshetnikov.

Earlier it was reported that a car fell into a pit with boiling water in a parking lot near a store in Penza, two people were killed.