A child died in a house fire in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

It is specified that the apartment caught fire in a multi-storey building in the village of Gorbatovka. Firefighters took out a woman and a child, 13 more people were evacuated.

"Unfortunately, a three—year-old boy died in an ambulance," the agency said in a Telegram channel message.

Over the elimination of fire on 40 sq. m. There were 27 firefighters and nine pieces of equipment working there.

A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Causing death by negligence"), the Telegram channel of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region reported. Currently, investigators and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are conducting an inspection of the scene. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

The day before, on February 25, in the Moscow region A criminal case has been opened over the death of a 16-year-old disabled teenager in a fire in a private house. The fire occurred on the morning of February 25 in the village of Sergiev Posad city district. A disabled child was left unattended by adults when the fire started.