“During the investigation of the criminal case, it was established that the cause of the fire was arson, and therefore the criminal case was re-qualified as part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“The murder of two or more persons committed in a generally dangerous way”), ”TASS quoted the representative of the UK as saying.

A resident of the Yaroslavl region born in 1982 was detained.

Earlier it was reported that in Rostov, as a result of a fire in an apartment building, seven people were killed, including five children.