At least 53 people dead in a major fire in a Siberian shopping center, Russia’s Investigative Committee said. “Three women, a child, and a man have been killed” and 30 people hospitalized following the blaze in the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo, an industrial city in central Siberia, it said in a statement.
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MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — At least 53 bodies have been recovered from a fire that swept through a busy shopping center in an industrial city in Siberia, Russian news agencies said Monday.
Many people are also still missing from the blaze that broke out Sunday in the city of Kemerovo, the agencies quoted emergency services as saying. A previous toll put the number of dead at 37 with nearly 70 missing, including 40 children.
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