“It has been previously established that on July 31, 2022, at night, a fire broke out in a house along Tsentralnaya SNT Energetik Street, Kochenevsky District, Novosibirsk Region.

During the extinguishing, the bodies of a 35-year-old man, a 29-year-old woman, a three-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl were found, ”the Investigative Committee said.

Investigators opened a criminal case, electrical appliances and fragments of electrical wires were seized from the scene.

Earlier it became known that a fire broke out in a Moscow hostel, resulting in the death of eight people.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations noted that the main cause of death was the fact that there were bars on the windows.

On July 30, the Presnensky Court of Moscow sent Eleonora Mironova, the general director of the hostel, to a pre-trial detention center.

The court also sent Rauf Mironov, the founder of the hostel, to jail.