“During the analysis of the place of fire, the bodies of three victims were found: a 34-year-old woman, her one-and-a-half-year-old son, as well as a man, whose identity is being established,” the statement says on the agency’s website.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a message about a fire in a timbered residential building arrived on Sunday, February 24, at 1:30 pm Moscow time.

It is specified that a 51-year-old woman was hospitalized as a result of the fire, two more children were able to leave the house on their own.

Currently, the rescue services managed to localize the fire, work to extinguish continues.

Earlier, after the smoke at the Lyceum in Kurgan, about 600 children were evacuated.

Portal progorod43.ru reported that in the Kirov region opened a case after the death of an eight-year child in a fire.