[BREAKING] Moscow Warehouse Fire Outbreak,16 People Dead


No less than 16 people have met their untimely death in a fire that broke out at a Moscow warehouse on Saturday morning, Russian authorities said.

“When the fire was being put out, a room that had been cut off by the flames was discovered,” TASS news agency quoted the regional branch of the emergency ministry’s press service as saying.

“Firefighters tore down the wall and found 16 dead.”

Emergency workers arrived at the scene at 0500 GMT to quel a blaze that had engulfed 200 square metres of a warehouse in an industrial zone in the Russian capital’s north.

The fire was extinguished at around 0700 GMT, authorities said.

A police source revealed that the victims were apparently migrants from former Soviet republics and that the warehouse belonged to a local printing company.

Sergei Sobyanin,the mayor of Moscow tweeted that the city would investigate the incident ASAP.

The cause of the blaze remains untold. A criminal investigation was launched to determine whether it erupted due to firebombing or inattention.

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