Traffic on Marshal Zhukov Avenue in Moscow is hampered by a car fire.

A car caught fire on Marshal Zhukov Avenue in Moscow. This was announced by the press service of the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development on Thursday, April 24.

The car caught fire in the area of house 55, p. 2 in the front page.

"Traffic in the area of the accident is obstructed in the direction of the center by 2.3 km. Please choose detours," the Moscow City News agency quoted Deptrans as saying.

Currently, the operational services of the city are working at the scene of the accident. The circumstances of the incident and information about the victims are being clarified.

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The day before, a fire occurred in the parking lot of the Afimall City shopping complex in western Moscow. Materials caught fire at the construction site along the Afimoll, IA Regnum reports. There is no information about the victims, and no evacuation has been carried out.

The fire was reported on the afternoon of April 23 in the Moscow department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. Then it was said that the fire occurred due to the ignition of the car in the parking lot, reports NSN.