
The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia reported on the closure of a number of shopping centers throughout the country in connection with fire safety violations identified after the tragedy in Kemerovo .
“There are shopping centers that are prescribed to be closed until the violations are eliminated. There are about 10-15 of them,” said the official representative of the supervisory authority, Alexander Kurennaya, on the air of the Radio , says Moscow on April 4.
“I will not name specific regions, but there are definitely such in the Urals area,” he said. “In my opinion, these were Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. Some ordered to close before the elimination of violations. Violations in reality, and not on paper, then discuss.”
According to Kurenny, the most common violations were the absence of pointers, clutter of evacuation outputs, as well as non -working fire extinguishing systems and alarm systems.
Fire safety checks in all shopping centers of the country began after 64 people died in Kemerovo in Kemerovo, including 41 children in a fire in a fire and entertainment complex in Kemerovo.
As reported, a fire alarm did not work in this shopping center, and evacuation exits were locked.