A woman died in a fire in a five-story building in Korkino in the Chelyabinsk region.

In the city of Korkino in the Chelyabinsk region, a woman died as a result of a fire in a five-story apartment building. This is reported by the regional Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.

The fire occurred on Thursday, October 30, in an apartment on the first floor of a five-story building on Karl Marx Street. When rescuers arrived, they did not find any people in the burning room and extinguished the fire, but the smoke managed to spread to the entrance.

During a further check in the stairwell on the fifth floor, they found a woman unconscious. She was taken out of the danger zone and handed over to the doctors. However, resuscitation failed, the woman died, writes the news agency " <url>".

"The staff of the inquiry department worked at the scene of the incident in the city of Korkino. The most likely cause of the fire was a childish prank," the Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a statement.

The fire area was 20 square meters. m. 10 people and three pieces of equipment were involved in extinguishing.

On October 26, a fire broke out on the territory of a garage cooperative in Lipetsk. A 40-year-old man died as a result of a fire in one of the boxes.

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