In the village of Drabovtsi, Cherkassy region, four children became victims of the fire. This is reported by the State Service for Emergency Situations.
According to the State Emergency Service, the fire occurred in a private residential building on December 17 at 20:30. At 22:07 the fire was liquidated by rescuers on an area of ??60 square meters.
"On the site of the fire, the bodies of four dead children (aged from one to eight years) were found," reads the statement..
Later, in Cherkassy, ??RSES noted that, according to preliminary data, the cause of the tragedy was the violation of fire safety rules for the operation of furnaces.
The first deputy head of the National Police, Vyacheslav Abroskin, in his Facebook said that with the 28-year-old mother of children,. According to him, the woman "closed the children in the house, and she went to rest with her friends".