Five people were killed and six others were injured after a heating pipe burst on Monday at a hotel in Russia, flooding a basement hotel room with boiling water, according to officials. The incident happened at the Mini Hotel Caramel, located in the basement of a residential building in the city of Perm, near Russia's Ural Mountains. A doctor treating the victims, Andrei Babikov, told Reuters a 33-year-old woman had burns covering 35 percent of her body. The heating pipe involved in Monday's explosion had been in operation since 1962 and been broken repeatedly in the past, Russia' RIA News Agency reported. Last year the Russian parliament banned opening hostels or hotel rooms in apartments in residential buildings, according to The Associated Press.

Source: Fox News January 20, 2020 06:56 UTC