Baku, Azerbaijan, March 13
By Seba Aghayeva - Trend:
The number of Azerbaijanis killed in the fire in a shopping center in the city of Kazan of Russia's Tatarstan Republic reached three people.
During the search and rescue work at the fire scene in the 'Admiral' shopping center in Kazan, the dead bodies of an Azerbaijani woman and a teenager were recovered from the rubble, the representative office of the All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress in Tatarstan told Trend on March 13.
Earlier, Tatarstan's Emergency Situations Ministry told Trend that the dead body of an Azerbaijani citizen, Parviz Pashayev, born 1995, killed in the fire, was retrieved from the shopping center's rubble on March 12.
It was also earlier announced that two Azerbaijanis became victims of the fire. So far, it is known that the name of one of those Azerbaijanis is Salam.
A criminal case was launched regarding the case, on the Russian Criminal Code's article "Violation of fire safety requirements, resulting in death by negligence."
The investigation believes the fire could have occurred due to short circuit. Other possible reasons include safety rules violation.
Among the killed and injured in the fire, there are citizens of several other states. Aside from Azerbaijanis and Russians, the lists of the dead included the names of Tajik people. Among the injured, there are citizens of Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
The head of the press service of Tatarstan's Emergency Situations Ministry, Andrei Rodygin said that fire in the shopping center started in a café on the building's right side, and many sellers tried to take away goods through the left entrance.
"Nobody was expecting that the overlap over the entire area of the building will simultaneously collapse," Rodygin said.
Tatarstan's prosecutor's office will conduct its own inspection. The senior aide of Tatarstan's prosecutor for media relations, Ruslan Galiyev, said, "a criminal case is under special control in the republican prosecutor's office."
The "Soviet" District Court of Kazan is to choose on March 13 a measure of restraint against the main tenant of the 'Admiral' shopping center, the head of the company 'Zarya' Huseyin Gahramanov, who was previously detained at the request of the prosecutor's office.
Edited by SI
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