An investigative team is working in Pochinka, investigating the deaths of five children and their 87-year-old grandmothers, who died in the morning fire on July 7.
At 7 am, the Ministry of Emergency Situations received a message about a fire in a wooden private house on Sverdlov Street. After the fire was extinguished, the bodies of five children and one adult were found. The victims were identified. According to the press service of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Smolensk region, the victims were an 87-year-old woman, her two great-granddaughters, 6 years old and 4 months old, and three children, 7.9 and 12 years old, who were visiting.
It became known that the parents of the four-month-old and six-year-old girls were in the bathhouse, which is located on the personal plot.
In the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee, two criminal cases have been initiated and are being investigated. In the department for the investigation of especially important cases, an investigation group has been created.
One of several versions of the causes of the fire is electrical, although a number of examinations are required to confirm. They are scheduled for the near future. The press service said that the family was not registered with the prevention authorities, in the department of guardianship and guardianship.
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