“According to the representative of the administration of the detention center, pregnant women, women with children and minors who were kept in the detention center No. 6 have already been sent to pre-trial detention center no. The rest are now in the walking yards and in the areas adjacent to the restricted areas, ”the POC representative said, adding that the members of the commission were not allowed into the territory of the isolation ward where the fire broke out.
According to the employees of the SIZO No. 6 administration, firefighters continue to spill the premises where the fire took place.
The scale of the fire is being specified. In the pre-trial detention center, they claim that the fire took place in a clothing warehouse, and the smoke spread through the cells.
Members of the commission do not yet have information about the victims.
Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that there was a fire in the capital's remand prison No. 6. Later, the department announced an increase in the area of the fire in the insulator.
The Moscow prosecutor's office has already organized an inspection due to this incident.