A message about the alarm in the shopping center arrived at the Ministry of Emergencies at 15:59.
“The facility personnel evacuated 250 people. There are no injuries. There was a short circuit without subsequent burning, ”RIA Novosti quoted the agency as saying.
Earlier, 100 people were evacuated from a boarding house in Sochi in connection with a fire.
In November 2019, URA.RU reported that more than 300 people were evacuated from the shopping center in Yekaterinburg.