"At 05:16, the fire and rescue units that arrived at the scene found open burning of an apartment on the 9th floor of a 9-storey residential building," the message says.
It is noted that the fire was localized over an area of 50 sq.
m.
When pouring and dismantling the rubble, the bodies of three dead were found.
Earlier, a large fire at an industrial site in the Sverdlovsk region was localized over an area of 1000 sq.
m.