Two adults, 3 children die in blaze in south Russia
13:56, 18 February 2009
ROSTOV-ON-DON. February 18. KAZINFORM Five people, including three children, were killed in a house fire in southern Russia on Wednesday morning, a local emergencies spokesman said.
The emergency report on the fire in the village of Kislyakovskaya, Russia's Krasnodar Territory was received at 05:08 a.m. Moscow time (02:08 GMT) and put out just over an hour later.
"Firefighters removed five bodies from the debris, including a father, mother and their three children, a girl born in 2004 and two boys born in 2005. The grandmother was rescued," the spokesman said.
The rescue operation involved 23 emergency workers and eight vehicles, Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.