Moscow sources reported that Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova stated that thirteen children, who died in a massive blaze that broke out at a shopping centre in Russia Kemerovo city, have been identified. Meanwhile a total of 64 people were killed in the fire that started on the top floor of the four storey Zimnyaya Vishnya or Winter Cherry shopping mall on Sunday, engulfing an area of some 1,500 square metres.
As per report "The bodies of 13 children who died in the fire have been identified”. Moreover experts have started DNA tests required for identifying the bodies of those who died in the shopping center fire in Kemerovo. Veronika Skvortsova said 60 people were injured in the inferno out of which 15 were hospitalized and 40 received outpatient care.
Moreover the head of the city's fire department
Sergei Yakovlev said that the blaze had spread via flammable thermal insulation
that complicated the process of extinguishing the inferno. Furthermore the
official cause is yet to be ascertained, although reports suggest that it could
have been started by a child misusing a cigarette lighter or malfunctioning
electrical wires.
