Two children aged 4 and 2 years old, his parents left unattended, were killed in a fire in a. Starokazchye of the Odessa region, the press service of the Main Directorate of the State Service for Emergency Situations of Ukraine in the region.

According to the information released on Tuesday morning, a fire report was received by the Rescue Service "101" at 13. 41 Mondays. But due to the fact that the distance to the place of the fire from the fire and rescue unit is 40 km, the fire was eliminated by local residents and the fire and security guards of the village before the arrival of rescuers.

During the fire extinguishing in the building where the fire occurred, two children were found without signs of life. As it turned out, the parents left the four-year-old girl and the two-year-old boy unattended.

The total area of ??the fire was 30 square meters. The assumed cause of the fire is the use of a self-made heater.

On this fact, law enforcement officers carry out operational-investigative measures.