2024-01-15T17:32:15+00:00
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/ The Azerbaijani authorities reported on Monday that six people were killed and more than twenty others were injured in a commercial warehouse explosion in the capital, Baku.
The Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a joint statement that a criminal investigation had been opened into “violation of fire safety rules.”
“The death toll from the fire in the warehouse has risen to six,” the Public Prosecutor’s Office said.
The authorities had previously reported that three people were killed and 24 others were injured.
Pictures published by local media showed a building with a partially destroyed roof, thick gray smoke billowing from it, and rescue personnel working amid the rubble.
Last week, four newborn babies died in a fire at a maternity hospital in Baku. An investigation was opened at the time into a “violation of safety rules,” and initial information showed that the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit.
In April 2022, an explosion killed one person and injured 37 others in a nightclub in Baku due to a leak from a liquefied gas tank in the facility.