In the south-west of Moscow, a fire broke out in an apartment of a residential building

“At 22:07 open burning in the apartment was eliminated,” RIA Novosti reported.

The message about the fire on the seventh floor in the apartment of the house on Profsoyuznaya street was received at 21:42.

Five people, including a child, were rescued from a neighboring apartment.

Earlier, the website Realnoe Vremya reported that an investigation was launched in Tatarstan into the death of three people as a result of a fire.