“According to preliminary data, as a result of a fire in an eight-story apartment building on Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Square, five people were swallowed with smoke,” RIA Novosti quoted the agency as saying.

The State Ministry of Emergencies in Moscow at 15:19 recorded a message about a fire in an apartment on the eighth floor in a residential building at Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Square, 16/18, building 2.

Earlier, in the city of Petushki, Vladimir Region, in the shopping center "Equator", a fire occurred on an area of ​​1.5 thousand square meters. m