Fifty-two people saved from Buryatia hotel fire
17:52, 1 September 2012
ULAN-UDE. September 1. KAZINFORM Fifty-two tourists, including 12 children, were saved from a fire that fully destroyed a hotel in a small resort village of Arshan, the Republic of Buryatia.
No deaths were reported.
There is no information about the whereabouts of a 63-year-old woman. The search is underway, the republic's emergencies department told Itar-Tass.
All people were accommodated in neighbouring hotels.
Neglect of fire safety is named as a preliminary version of the fire in a two-storey wooden hotel owned by a firm from Irkutsk. The building was heated with electric convectors, Itar-Tass says.