“A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of Russia (causing death by negligence to two or more persons),” the message on the website of the regional UK says.
It is noted that "when fighting a fire, rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations discovered the bodies of 11 dead, presumably foreign citizens (nationality is being specified)."
Two men who were in the house evacuated independently.
Earlier it was reported that the death toll in a fire in a one-story wooden residential building in Asinovsky district of the Tomsk region increased to 11 people. According to the consul of Uzbekistan, the five dead were citizens of this republic.