"The Investigation Department for Krasnogorsk of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region has opened a criminal case into the death of three people as a result of a fire (part 3 of Art. 109 of the Criminal Code of Russia)," the message says.

According to the investigation, in the course of extinguishing the fire, the bodies of three people were found - two men and a woman. 

Earlier, three people, including two children, died in a fire in the Moscow region, two more - an adult and a child - were injured.