This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the Department of the Investigative Committee for the region, Alexander Shulga.

According to him, the message about a fire in a private residential building on Sverdlov Street in Asbest of the Sverdlovsk Region was received on Saturday, at about 19:00.

During the extinguishing, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations found the bodies of three men and a woman.

Earlier it was reported that a fire broke out in the colony in Vladikavkaz.