Fire in a cafe in the southeast of Moscow: three dead, four injured

Three people were killed and four were injured as a result of a fire in a cafe in the southeast of Moscow. About this, according to ITAR-TASS, said the head of the press service of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergencies, Evgeny Bobylev.

Four more people before the firefighters arrived, fleeing the fire, jumped out of the window of the second floor. They received fractures of the legs, all the victims were taken to Moscow hospitals, ”he said.

A fire in a cafe on the street of young Leninites arose at about 18:30. The fire covered about 200 square meters of square on the second and first floors of the building. To date, the fire has been extinguished.

As Bobylev later said, despite traffic jams, the fire crews managed to meet the schedule time of arrival at the scene, or rather, seven minutes later. He noted that the fire report was received on the “01” remote control.

"The arriving crews saw black smoke bursting out of the burning building and a strong smoke. This suggests that too much time has passed since the fire to the call to the duty unit," Bobylev said.

As the correspondent of Interfax reports from the scene, the fire is currently eliminated, firefighters spill the burnt building with water. In addition, intelligence is underway for the possible detection of the dead and victims.

According to eyewitnesses of the fire, the fire broke out on the ground floor of a two -story building, where the clothing store was located, and then the flame spread to the second floor, where a cafe was located, in which a fairly large number of visitors were located at that moment. The upper part was badly damaged in the building from the fire, the glass was knocked out there and the roof was damaged.

The traffic of private road transport along the street of young Leninites (only buses and trolleybuses rides). As a result, serious traffic jams formed in the area and environs.