“On January 23, 2020, the head of the investigative department, Andrei Schukin, organized an additional inspection of the scene ... During the inspection, the investigators discovered the remains of the 12th dead,” the statement said.

It is specified that representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan take part in the investigation of the emergency.

On January 21, in the village of Prichulymsky, Tomsk Region, a fire broke out in the house where employees of the logging company Greenwood LLC lived. It was reported that as a result of the fire killed ten citizens of Uzbekistan and one Russian woman.

An expert at the Russian President’s Human Rights Council, who previously headed the HRC Migration Policy Commission, Yevgeny Bobrov, in an interview with the NSN, commented on reports of a deadly fire in the Tomsk Region.