A fire broke out at the Arsenal plant in St. Petersburg.

A fire broke out at the Arsenal plant in St. Petersburg. The fire area was 250 sq.m. Mikhail Astashkevich, head of the Kalininsky District administration, informed about this on June 19.

"I urgently went to the Arsenal factory, where a fire broke out this morning. The production facility caught fire," he wrote on his page on the VKontakte social network.

According to him, 15 people evacuated from the scene. It is specified that the fire was localized. Astashkevich also suggested that the cause of the fire could be repairs.

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Earlier, on June 18, a fire was reported in a shopping mall in Makhachkala. The fire area reached 500 sq.m.