Six people died when fire swept through a psychiatric hospital in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, authorities said Tuesday.
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Emergency doctors, police officers and firefighters stand near the site of a burnt psychiatric hospital in Odessa on June 10, 2019. - Six people died when fire swept through a psychiatric hospital in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, authorities said June 11. The fire erupted late Monday evening in the one-storey building, Ukraine's Emergency Service said in a statement. The cause was not immediately clear. (Photo by Alexander GIMANOV / AFP)
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Emergency doctors, police officers and firefighters stand near the site of a burnt psychiatric hospital in Odessa on June 10, 2019. – Six people died when fire swept through a psychiatric hospital in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, authorities said June 11. The fire erupted late Monday evening in the one-storey building, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said in a statement. The cause was not immediately clear. (Photo by Alexander GIMANOV / AFP)Six people died when fire swept through a psychiatric hospital in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, authorities said Tuesday.
The fire erupted late Monday evening in the one-storey building, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said in a statement. The cause was not immediately clear.
“Six people died and four have been hospitalised,” the statement said. Nine other people escaped unharmed.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he regretted the “terrible tragedy” and directed Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to set up a committee to investigate.
“The reasons (for the fire) will be established. I present my condolences to the families of the victims,” he said on Twitter.
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Deadly fires are not uncommon in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics due to outdated infrastructure and poor security measures.
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