45 killed in Fire | Moscow

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A fire broke out in a women’s ward of a drug treatment hospital early this Saturday,killed 45 women, most of them young addicts.Russia’s chief fire inspector, Yuri Nenashev, said he was “90% certain” the fire was caused by arson. But Moscow city prosecutor Yuri Syomin said investigators were looking into other possibilities.About 160 people were evacuated from the five-story Hospital

No. 17 in south Moscow, said Fire Department spokesman Yevgeny Bobylyov,He also blamed hospital workers for not being fast enough in reacting to the fire and evacuating people.”Fire safety officers visited the hospital in February and March, and called for its temporary closure after their second visit”Said Russia’s chief fire inspector Yuri Nenashev.

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