MOSCOW — A heating pipe burst Monday in a small Russian hotel, flooding rooms with boiling water that killed five people and left six others injured in the city of Perm, emergency officials said. The hotel of nine rooms was located in the basement of a residential building in the city near Russia’s Ural Mountains. Given the deaths, the Russian parliament might consider a ban on opening hotels or hostels in the basements of residential buildings, lawmaker Oleg Melnichenko said. “Hostels shouldn’t be open in basements, where all pipelines are located,” Melnichenko said. Last year, the Russian parliament banned opening hostels or hotel rooms in apartments in residential buildings.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 20, 2020 07:52 UTC