Seventeen people died when an unlicenced home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, a fresh tragedy to shake the conflict-riven country.
The fire tore through the two-storey building for the elderly in the village of Litochky, located some 50 kilometres north of Kiev.
“The bodies of 17 people have been found at the site of the fire,” the head of Ukraine’s state emergencies service, Mykola Chechotkin, told reporters.
“The fire broke out at a privately-owned house,” he said, adding the residence did not meet existing regulatory requirements.
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Source: Pakistan Today
