Seven people died in a fire in a residential building near Irkutsk

It is clarified that by the time the firefighters arrived, the veranda of one of the apartments was on fire.

“Seven people were found in the apartment as a gas and smoke protection service: the dead - a man born in 1998 and two women born in 1997 and 1993, as well as four children who received carbon monoxide poisoning,” the agency reports to RIA Novosti.

Earlier it became known about the death of four children in a fire in a private house in the city of Taishet, Irkutsk Region.