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Four die in St Petersburg 12-storey building fire

The information about the fire in the 12-storey building at Udarnikov Avenue, the Frunzensky district, was received at 06:14 Moscow time
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ST. PETERSBURG, January 8 (Itar-Tass) — Four people died in an apartment building fire in St. Petersburg on Sunday morning.

One more dead body was found at the site, a source of the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s department in St. Petersburg told Itar-Tass.

The information about the fire in the 12-storey building at Udarnikov Avenue, the Frunzensky district, was received at 06:14 Moscow time. A two-room flat burned up on the eleventh floor. When the blaze was extinguished, three dead bodies, two men and a woman, were found at the site. The fourth unidentified dead body was found later.