Death in the warehouse

At the place of extinguishing the fire in the warehouse building of the printing house "Printed Express" in the Moscow Reflon region, 16 bodies of the dead were discovered, another woman died in the hospital. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in emergency services of the city. Three victims are hospitalized.

The fire began at about 8 in the morning. The reason was a malfunction of the lamp, said Ilya Denisov, the head of the capital's head of the Ministry of Emergencies. "At the moment, the cause of the fire was set by almost 100 percent, it was a lamp of the lamp in one of the warehouse premises, in which there were a lot of flammable liquids and paper products, as a result of which the fire spread from the first floor on the elevator mine in which the dead people were," he said. The ignition area was 200 square meters. meters.

The warehouse was equipped with a fire alarm, and at the time of the incident it was working. "In order to get to the premises with the dead, the employees of the Ministry of Emergencies had to analyze the walls and dismantle the metal cabinets," Denisov noted.

The dead were citizens of Kyrgyzstan. "According to the administration, all those who were in the warehouse worked under labor contracts. Since they are citizens of Kyrgyzstan and are included in the Customs Union, they do not need a special permission to work in the Russian Federation," Denisov said.

The deputy head of the Ministry of Emergencies Leonid Belyaev said that the dead did not live in the building of the warehouse, but were on the work shift. "Some could not be saved due to the fact that they, feeling the smell of smoke, went into the far room, from which it is impossible to get out. They suffocated from (products) of burning," he said.

The representative of the Kyrgyz community in Moscow Abdygani Shakirov said that all the dead are girls. "All the dead are girls. Mostly they were all in Moscow on earnings. They were in the locker room and could not get out of there. The smoke cut off the way out," he said. The youngest of the dead was 18 years old.

Initially, the Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case on the fact of the fire under part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code (intentional destruction or damage to property, resulting in the death of a person and other grave consequences). However, soon it was re -qualified to part 3 of Article 219 (violation of fire safety requirements, which entailed by negligence the death of two or more persons).

On January 30, during a fire at a weaving enterprise on Stromynka Street , 12 people who lived at the enterprise, including a child aged less than 1 year, were killed . The fire area was 3 thousand square meters; At the same time, on an area of ​​500 square meters there was a collapse of construction structures.

The owners of the construction are two limited liability companies, and the second floor of the building was leased to a certain individual entrepreneur. This businessman equipped a workshop for sewing pillows on the floor and hired illegal migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, who settled in a room neighboring with the workshop.

After the fire, Sobyanin said that he instructed the capital's departments of the Ministry of Emergencies and the FMS to "check the industrial zones to identify the residence of illegal migrants, compliance with fire safety rules."