22 people were killed in an illegally run private shelter fire on Saturday in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, according to Russian authorities.
The wooden structure in the city, which is 1,900 miles (3,00 kilometres) east of Moscow, was initially referred to be a nursing home, but later, the country’s Investigative Committee, which looks into significant crimes, stated it was a “temporary residence for persons in a difficult life situation.”
The committee reported that a guy who rented the structure has been detained and accused of violating safety rules, which led to numerous fatalities. He was not named in the committee’s statement, but according to news accounts, he was a local pastor.
The investigation committee said that inhabitants had complained about the building’s coal-fired boiler failing to the shelter operator the day before the incident, though the cause of the fire that started before daybreak has not been identified.
The two-story building was destroyed in a fire that also injured six other persons.
