A fire in an apartment building in the Pskov region claimed the lives of three people.

A large fire occurred in a private apartment building in the Didovichi municipal district of the Pskov region. Three people died.

As told to the Pskov news feed in the Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region, the house burned down in the village of Zahonye.

The message about the fire was received at the duty desk at 4:01 a.m. Firefighters found the bodies of three victims at the scene. The causes of the incident are being established.

On May 26, a fire was reported in a private apartment building in Lipetsk. Igor Artamonov, the governor of the region, said that the fire had spread to parked cars and outbuildings. Later, the regional prosecutor's office reported that the collapse of a house in Lipetsk could have been caused by a gas explosion. Three people died.