Fire at Russian hospital kills 21

The fire at the clinic overnight to Sunday claimed the lives of 23 people. He said that one person was still missing, while two people died while they were being taken to a hospital for treatment.

Most of those who perished were in their 60s and 70s.

The patients at the Novokhopersky Neuropsychiatric Home all were people who died were aged between 46 and 78, based on a list and guys.

‘They simply did not wake up, ‘ a correspondent reported from the scene.

The fire erupted in psychiatric hospital on Saturday night.

Firefighters evacuated 55, with fifteen taken to the hospital with burns, it said. “The death toll now stands at 23, ” the press service said, adding the cause of fire accident is being investigated. Four medical personnel working at the home… Russia’s Investigative Committee said it considers the incident a crime and pledged, “to look into every possible version of how the fire started and led to such tragic consequences”.

“There’s no way we would give them matches”, she said in televised remarks.

Vladimir Putin has sent his condolences to relatives of the 23 victims who died when a fire ripped through a psychiatric hospital in southern Russian Federation.

Activist Konstantin Rubakhin, whose father was born in Alfyorovka, said that the psychiatric hospital was a awful place.

More than 150 people were killed in 2009 when a fire swept through a nightclub in Perm, around 1,200 kilometers (700 miles) east of Moscow.