A child and two adults died in a fire in an apartment building in Blagoveshchensk.

Three people, including a minor, died in a fire in a four-story apartment building on Pionerskaya Street in Blagoveshchensk, Amur region. This was announced on April 22 in the Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation in the region.

"Three people died as a result of the fire, one of them a child," the ministry said in a statement on the MAX messenger.

In addition, as noted in the same place, as a result of the incident, another minor was injured, who was later taken to a medical facility.

Representatives of the fire and rescue units who arrived at the scene of the tragedy rescued 13 people from the building, three of whom were children. They also localized the fire on an area of 60 square meters. m. 22 specialists and five pieces of equipment were involved in this process.

Authorized persons within the investigative bodies, investigators of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and experts of the fire testing laboratory establish the causes of the incident.

On April 20, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation in the Nizhny Novgorod region reported the death of four people in a fire in an apartment building located in the village of Nizhegorodets in the Dalnekonstantinovsky district. At that time, the fire area was 80 square meters, and six pieces of equipment and 12 personnel were involved in extinguishing it.