A pensioner died in a fire in a garden house in the Irkutsk region.

A garden house caught fire in the Shelekhovsky district of the Irkutsk region. Firefighters found the body of a 74-year-old woman while extinguishing the fire.

Information about the gorenje was received from the village of Bolshoy Luga. According to the preliminary version, the fire occurred due to a short circuit in the electrical wiring. This is reported by IA IrkutskMedia.

The fire area was 43 square meters. m. Eight people and three pieces of equipment participated in the extinguishing.

In the Trans—Baikal Territory, a fire occurred at a sawmill near the Chita-Zabaikalsk highway. During extinguishing, the bodies of two men were found, and another person was burned. The cause of the fire could be carelessness while smoking.