“Late in the evening of October 3, 2020, law enforcement agencies received a message about a fire in an apartment on the second floor of a residential building on Engels Street in the city of Tavda.
As a result of the fire, two adult citizens and three young children were killed, "- quoted by TASS message.
The press service emphasized that in order to establish all the circumstances of the tragedy, the Tavda Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region has initiated a criminal case based on this message.
According to preliminary information, the fire occurred as a result of careless handling of fire.
Earlier, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported the death of one person in a fire in an apartment in Moscow.