RUSSIA: Fire at Russian institute kills seven, injures 35

People hung onto drainpipes as emergency crews tried to quell a fire that killed seven and injured thirty five in the Russian capital. At least seven people were killed and 35 injured on Tuesday (October 2) in a fire at a public building southeast of Moscow, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. The fire broke out on the fourth floor of one of the buildings at the Institute of State and Corporate Management. "It was a latent development of fire in one of the parts of the building which immediately blocked the escape way in the corridor and as a result people could not be evacuated and they had to jump out of the fourth floor of the building," said senior Fire Department representative Pyotr Nenashev. He also said that a result of the fire, seven people died and 35 were injured on Tuesday evening. Fire safety at public buildings across Russia has been criticised after a series of fires where fatalities were high because fire escapes were blocked and evacuation drills are rarely held. Only in March this year, around 62 residents and staff died in a home for the elderly in southern Russia. A fire at a Moscow drug clinic last year killed 45 women patients and staff.

ITN Source | October 3, 2007

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