Fire hits elderly home in Ukraine (Image from Sputnik)
Kiev, Ukraine – Seventeen people died when a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, the emergencies service said.
“The bodies of 17 people have been found at the site of the fire,” the head of Ukraine’s state emergencies service, Mykola Chechetkin, said in comments released by his office.
The fire tore through the temporary two-storey shelter for the elderly which was located in the village of Litochky, located some 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Kiev.
Citing preliminary information, the service said that …read more
Source: Malaya Business Insight
