This was reported by TASS with reference to the regional branch of the Ministry of Emergencies.

“Sredneokhtinsky Avenue, 48, fire at No. 1, a five-story apartment building, on the fourth floor a two-room separate apartment burns across the entire area,” the statement said.

It is noted that three people, including a child, were poisoned and were hospitalized.

Earlier it became known that as a result of a fire in the city hospital of St. George in St. Petersburg, five people were killed.