This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

“As a result of a fire in an apartment on the fourth floor of a five-story building on Forssa Street, two people died,” the department said.

Earlier it was reported that two people died as a result of a fire in an apartment of a 16-storey building in the south-west of Moscow.

In February, URA.RU wrote that three people were killed in a fire in Kurgan.