15 killed in Ukraine nursing home fire
International Deskdaily-bangladesh.com
Published: 16:57 22 January 2021
Photo: Collected
At least 15 people were killed and 11 injured in a fire in a nursing home in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian state emergency service said on Thursday.
There were 33 people inside, the service said.
The service published a photo of the building with bars on the windows of the first floor. Smoke could be seen billowing out of broken windows of the second floor.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the interior minister to open and take charge of an inquiry into the incident.
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