A man and a child died as a result of a fire in a private house in Yakutsk.

A man and a child died as a result of a fire in a private house in Yakutsk. This was reported on April 24 in the press service of the investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

"After the fire was localized, the bodies of a man born in 1984 and his son born in 2009 were found at the scene," the Telegram channel said.

All the circumstances and causes of the incident are being established, the department added.

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