A man died in a fire in an apartment building in Transbaikalia.

The man's body was found while extinguishing a fire in an apartment building in the Trans-Baikal Territory. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the gorenje was carelessness when smoking.

The fire was reported from the village of Zabaikalsk on the morning of March 31. Furniture caught fire in a four-apartment building, and the walls were burned. The fire area was 6 square meters, according to the ChitaMedia news agency.

Six people participated in the extinguishing. An inspection is being carried out on the fact of the fire.

In Mordovia, a 14-year-old girl rescued three children from a burning apartment in a multi-storey building. The schoolgirl grabbed the 11-month-old baby, his 5-year-old and 10-year-old brothers and took them all outside.