The cause of the fire and the death of a child in it in the Chelyabinsk region has been named.

According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire in the village of Kropachevo in the Chelyabinsk region, in which a seven-year-old girl died, was a short circuit in the electrical wiring in the kitchen of the apartment. This is reported by the press service of the TFR in the region.

A criminal case has been opened into the incident under the article "Causing death by negligence." Investigators examined the scene and ordered a forensic medical examination. The circumstances of the incident are being established, writes the news agency " <url>".

The fire occurred on the night of January 15 in an apartment building on Sverdlov Street. During the liquidation of the fire, firefighters found the girl's body. Her mother managed to evacuate three children through the window, but she could not find another daughter indoors due to darkness and heavy smoke.

Earlier, on January 14, it was reported that a criminal investigation into the deaths of three children and their mother in a fire in an apartment building had been completed in the Moscow region. The person involved in the case is a 45-year-old resident of Moscow who rented an apartment in the village of Yurtsovo. The investigation believes that in August 2024, he brought two batteries from cargo tricycles to the apartment and put them to charge in the corridor next to 10 household gas cylinders and solvent tanks. After a while, a fire started. The people in the apartment were cut off from the front door. The father of the family, his wife and four children jumped from the balcony to escape.

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