Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, arrived in the Sklifosovsky Research Institute on April 4 to learn about the state of health of the victims of the fire in the shopping center "Perseus for Children". "I talked with the head physician and one of the injured rescuers. The two children are in a difficult condition, but we will hope that everything will be fine, "the mayor said on the page in his microblog Twitter. According to Sobyanin, firefighters behaved heroically. "Unfortunately, one employee of the shopping center was killed. Condolences to his relatives and friends, "he wrote. The mayor stressed that in a dangerous situation a regular smoke exhaust system worked, so all visitors were quickly removed from the building: 600 people were evacuated, another 20 were rescued by firefighters.

The shopping center "Perseus for children", located on Malaya Semenovskaya street, caught fire on the afternoon of April 4. One man perished in the fire. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the fire was a short circuit. Several injured were hospitalized, their condition is assessed as severe. The fire was not that big - only 80 square meters, but it was difficult for rescuers to extinguish the fire due to the fact that the fire arose on the last floor of the building where the warehouses of the weaving factory are located.