A woman and a 12-year-old child were killed in a fire in Primorye.

On May 31, a house caught fire in the village of Prokhory in the Spassky district, killing a woman and a 12-year-old child. This was announced on June 1 by the Primorsky Krai Prosecutor's Office in its Telegram channel.

"As a result of the fire, a woman born in 1952 and a minor born in 2013 died. In addition, a woman born in 1975, who lives in the same house, was hospitalized with burns," the report said.

The fire was extinguished. The results of the pre-investigation check were put under control by the prosecutor's office. The Investigative Department (SU) of the Investigative Committee (IC) for the region has begun to establish the circumstances of the fire.

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Four helicopters and a train were involved in extinguishing the fire

Earlier, on May 30, a fire broke out in an apartment building in Nizhny Novgorod. One person was killed and four injured.