The Consul General announced the absence of Russians among the victims of the fire in a club in Goa.

Russian citizens, according to preliminary data, were not found among those killed in a fire at a club in the southern Indian state of Goa. This was announced on December 7 by the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Mumbai, Ivan Fetisov.

"According to preliminary information, there are no Russians among them [the dead]," he told TASS.

According to Fetisov, the Russian ministry is currently checking information about the victims.

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In the Indian village of Arpora in the state on the night of December 7, at least 23 people died in a fire at a nightclub. It was noted that the fire broke out in the popular coastal club Birch by Romeo Lane. Presumably, the cause of the tragedy was a balloon explosion. It was clarified that the fire mainly engulfed the kitchen on the ground floor. According to police, most of the dead were club employees.

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