Fire at Kemerovo shopping mall and 64 dead

March 26


According to the Emergencies Ministry, 16 people are still 

missing

The death toll from a blaze that ravaged a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo has 

reached 64, Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov told reporters.

we have to announce that 64 people have died in the disaster," he said. Six bodies are yet to 

be recovered.

The risk of building collapse remains, nonetheless. According to the emergencies minister, 

structure reinforcement equipment has been delivered to Kemerovo.

Puchkov said earlier that 16 people were still reported to be missing after the deadly blaze.

The number of people injured by the fire has reached 52

On March 25, a fire erupted on the top floor of the four-storey Zimnyaya Vishnya (or Winter 

Cherry) shopping mall, engulfing a total of 1,500 square meters. The fire was extinguished but, 

in Puchkov’s words, the rubble has started to smolder due to the multilayer floorings in the 

building. Firefighters are currently dousing the smoldering spots found earlier.