Firefighters found the bodies of two dead men in a high-rise building in the center of Rostov-on-Don. One of them is the administrator of the three-star Torn House hotel, the second victim was a guest of this hotel. It is not excluded that new victims will be discovered.
Ten-storey building caught fire in the center of the city in Semashko Lane. As the emergency services of the region reported, the cause of the fire was the fire of the insulation on the facade of the building.
Eyewitnesses of the fire told that people were fleeing from a burning hotel, jumping from windows. The interlocutor of RIA Novosti claims that five people were saved in his eyes in this way, the girls jumped from the second floor, they were caught in their hands. It is reported that of these children no one was hurt.
Investigators have already begun pre-investigation checks on the fact of the fire, said the representative of the Russian SUSK in the Rostov region Galina Gagalayeva.
Recently, this is the third major fire in Rostov-on-Don.
At the end of August, a massive fire in the area of ??the Theater descent near the main square of Rostov-on-Don was destroyed about 100 houses. At that time 58 people applied for medical help, one deceased was found during the analysis of debris.
On the eve of the fire, private and apartment buildings were damaged, and one residential private house completely burned down.
The region is hot weather, on Thursday the air temperature in Rostov-on-Don was understood up to 32 degrees.