Three people die in an apartment fire in Khabarovsk (Russia), possibly the result of an electrical fault

MADRID Nov. 30 () –

Three people, two men and a woman, lost their lives during the early hours of this Saturday as a result of a fire possibly caused by an electrical failure that destroyed one of the apartments in a block of flats in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, informed the regional General Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.

“The alert was received on November 30 around one in the morning. A fire broke out on the fourth floor of a five-story panel building. A woman and two men between 53 and 46 years old died,” it reads. in a statement shared by the ministerial authorities through Telegram.

Members of the Emergency teams have traveled to the scene of the incident, managing to extinguish the flames around 1:20 a.m. (local time), and Investigation teams.

A process has already been initiated to clarify the causes of the event and, although at the moment no official conclusion has been reached, a possible failure in the building’s electrical network, where “there was no fire detector, is being considered as a possible cause.” autonomous” that “could have warned of the danger in time and given the possibility of carrying out a rescue.