MOSCOW (AP) — A devastating
fire at a shopping center in a Siberian city killed 37 people and left 69
others missing Sunday, many of them children, a Russian state news agency
reported.
The Tass agency quoted firefighters as saying that 40 of the
missing at the four-story Winter Cherry mall in Kemerovo were children. An
additional 43 people were injured in the blaze, the report said.
There has been no immediate information on the cause of the fire
at the mall, which is about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow. But
Tass reported that the fire started on the top floor and consumed an area of
about 1,500 square meters (16,150 square feet).
The reports didn't say if the victims died from burns or smoke
inhalation.
The shopping mall, which opened in 2013, has a cinema, petting
zoo, children's center and bowling, Tass reported.
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