Two children suffocate in fire in northern Moscow

MOSCOW. January 11. KAZINFORM Two children died in a house fire in northern Moscow on Sunday night, city emergency situations department spokesman Yevgeny Bobylev reported, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

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The fire broke out in a nine-storey building at 1, Volokolamskoye highway. Firemen quickly put down the blaze.

"The children born in 2003 and 2004 were lethally poisoned with smoke," Bobylev said.

The cause of the fire is yet unknown, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.ita-tass.com