The case was opened on the death of three people in a fire in the Urals.

A criminal case has been opened in the Sverdlovsk region over the deaths of two men and a woman in a fire. This is reported by the regional SU of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

The fire occurred on the night of July 18 in a private house in the village of Kurki, Arta district. According to the investigation, the day before, a family of four celebrated the birthday of one of them. Three went into the house, one stayed overnight in the sauna. It was the last man who noticed the fire on the veranda of the house and tried to extinguish it.

The fire spread from the veranda to the house, and the building was destroyed. Rescuers arrived after extinguishing the fire and found the bodies of two men and a woman, whose death occurred as a result of exposure to high temperature and poisoning by gorenje products, writes the news agency " <url>".

A criminal case has been opened under Part 3 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Causing death by negligence." The exact cause of the fire is being established, and several versions are being considered, including the emergency operation of the electrical wiring.

On May 4, a fire broke out in a private house in the village of Lenskoye in the Turinsky district of the Sverdlovsk region, which killed a family of five. Only a 14—year-old girl, whose father died in an accident three weeks earlier, managed to survive.