“A fire broke out in an apartment on the second floor of a residential building on Prospekt Mira. Nine people were injured, two of them died, ”RIA Novosti quotes a representative of the agency.

It is specified that 55 people left the building on their own. Another 17 people were saved by firefighters.

The regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia specified that 41 people and nine pieces of equipment were involved in the fight against fire.

Earlier it was reported that the UK is conducting a due diligence on the death of four people in a fire in Simferopol.