Two people died in a fire in the Bichursky district of Buryatia.

Two people died as a result of a fire in a private apartment building in the Bichursky district of Buryatia. This was reported on May 22 in the Main Directorate (GU) of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in the republic.

"On the morning of May 22, the fire department received a message about a house on fire in the village of Bichura, Bichura district. <...> During extinguishing, personnel found the bodies of a 40-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man without signs of life," the message in the Maks messenger says.

It is specified that as a result of the incident, the room burned out on an area of 18 sq. m. Four specialists and two pieces of equipment were involved in extinguishing. The Ministry of Emergency Situations added that experts are working to determine the cause of the fire.

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A criminal case has been opened into the incident.

The governor of the Moscow Region, Andrei Vorobyov, announced on May 21 that a house had caught fire in Lobnya, Moscow region, killing two people. The cause of the fire in the building was a gas explosion. An eyewitness also told Izvestia that a man who abused alcoholic beverages lived in the apartment where the incident occurred. The tenant could have left the gas open and used a lighter.