Moscow, Russia’s ministry of emergencies said on Saturday that 20 people were killed in a fire at a nursing home in the Siberian town of Kemerovo.
The fire broke out before dawn at the two-storey wooden building in the city 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow.
The cause was not immediately determined, but reports indicated that the building was heated by stoves.
It was unclear how many people lived at the private facility or how many were in the building when the fire broke out.
The fire broke out before dawn at the two-storey wooden building in the city 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow.
The cause was not immediately determined, but reports indicated that the building was heated by stoves.
It was unclear how many people lived at the private facility or how many were in the building when the fire broke out.
