“The Moscow Region Prosecutor’s Office has established special control and oversees the progress of the criminal investigation instituted by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Moscow Region under part 3 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of Russia (the performance of work or the provision of services that do not meet the safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence) following the death of nine people as a result of a fire in a boarding house for elderly people in the city district of Krasnogorsk, ”RIA Novosti quotes the representative of the prosecutor’s office .

On the night of May 10 to 11, a fire broke out on the second floor of the Krasnogorsk private hospice "Second House".

Nine people died, nine more were hospitalized.

A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the incident, the organizer of the private hospice has been detained.

The prosecutor’s office began a check after a fire.