A fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school holidays has killed 64 people in eastern Russia. A fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school holidays has killed 64 people in eastern Russia. Fire alarms had not sounded, and staff were reportedly nowhere to be seen as the blaze took hold at the Winter Cherry mall in Kemerovo, a city in Siberia, about 1,900 miles east of Moscow, according to witnesses. Sixty-four deaths were confirmed after the firefighters finished combing through the four floors of the mall, emergency situations minister Vladimir Puchkov told a televised briefing. Kemerovo residents said the mall was packed with children and their parents.

Source: Irish Independent March 26, 2018 09:33 UTC