In Krasnoyarsk, a man was sentenced to two years and three months for the death of people in a fire

In Krasnoyarsk, a man, who caused a fire, which killed four people, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison. This was reported on Sunday, February 24, in the Main Investigative Directorate (MID) of the Investigative Committee (IC) for the Krasnoyarsk region.

"By the court sentence the man was sentenced to two years and three months of imprisonment with serving the sentence in a colony of general regime", - stated in the publication of the department in Telegram.

A 51-year-old resident of Krasnoyarsk was found guilty of committing a crime under part 3 of article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Causing death by negligence to two or more persons").

The incident occurred on the night of October 26 last year. A company of five people of no fixed abode consumed alcoholic beverages in an abandoned wooden house on Transitnaya Street. When everyone went to bed, he dropped a cigarette, after which there was a fire.

The man failed to help his acquaintances to get out of the burning house, left the scene on his own and fled.

The fire was noticed by neighbors and appealed to the special services. Rescuers during the liquidation of the fire found the bodies of three women and a man, they died due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Earlier, on February 18, it was reported that in the Chelyabinsk region, a local resident, presumably under the influence of narcotic substances, himself set a fire, and then attacked with a cold weapon on the EMERCOM rescuers who arrived to extinguish the fire. The investigative authorities are conducting a check on this fact.