Two people died in a fire in a five-storey building in the Saratov region.

Two people died as a result of a fire in a five-storey building in the city of Balakovo, Saratov region. The press service of the Investigative Department (SU) of the Investigative Committee (IC) reported this on Tuesday, January 20.

"A procedural check is being conducted on the death of a man and a woman," RT quotes the message.

The circumstances of the fire are being established.

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Earlier that day, a criminal case was opened in the Abinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory on the death of a woman and three children as a result of a fire in a private house, IA Regnum reports.

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