A resident of Kemerovo Igor Vostrikov, who lost his wife, sister and three children during the fire, posted a video from the video surveillance cameras on Instagram, who photographed a crush during evacuation from the “winter cherry”.
This complete record began the fire in the shopping center. From the previously published video, four minutes were cut out.
The record shows that the fire began to spread on the left side and in less than a minute filled the room with thick black smoke. Then you can see how people try to leave the shopping center along a narrow staircase, a crush begins.
A fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center occurred on March 25. 64 people were killed, 41 of them are children. Another 79 people were injured, five of them still remain in the hospital. The Investigative Committee among the versions of the fire is considering, including a short circuit and arson. A source in the Kemerovo Administration of the Ministry of Emergencies told RBC that, according to preliminary results of a fire-technical examination, the fire center was in a hidden cavity between the third and fourth floors. According to the source, a power cable took place in this place.
After a fire in the merchant Center, the former governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev fired his deputy Alexei Zelenina and the head of the Department of Internal Policy Nina Lopatina. On April 1, the head of the region himself asked the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to dismiss him from his post, since, in his opinion, one cannot work as the governor “with such a heavy load”.