According to the press service of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee, at the time of the fire there were a 51-year-old man in the house, as well as two children aged three and four years. Neighbors came to the residents' aid. They helped carry out a three-year-old boy, after which rescuers arrived at the scene and evacuated the second child.

“The victims were handed over to doctors, but the four-year-old boy died from his injuries in the ambulance. The man and the second child were taken to the hospital,” the report says.

Earlier it became known that two children injured in a fire in Kueda, Perm, would be transported to a hospital in Perm.