A fire broke out in the Derbent administrative building

An administrative building caught fire in Derbent at 56 Krasnoarmeysky Lane. This was reported on August 20 in the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Dagestan.

"In Derbent, at 56 Krasnoarmeysky Lane, an administrative two—story building measuring approximately 50x10 is on fire," the department's Telegram channel says.

Fire crews are working at the scene. Information about the incident is being clarified.

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Earlier, on August 19, it was reported that four people died as a result of a fire in an apartment building in the village of Krasnogorye in the Kotelnicheskiy district of the Kirov region. A check was organized on the fact of the incident.

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