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The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia puts under supervision investigation of a probe into death of people in a fire in a hospital in the Kirov Region

The Kirov Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia is investigating a criminal case into an offense committed under Part 3 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of Russia (infliction of death by negligence to two or more persons).

The investigation established that on the night of October 4-5 a fire broke out in one of the wards of infectious diseases hospital and resulted in fire death of two patients: 66-year-old and 82-year-old man.

Investigators and forensic investigators of the Kirov Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia work at the scene, a set of investigative actions is being performed to determine all the circumstances of the incident, the preliminary cause of the fire is careless handling of fire by one of the deceased patients.

The Head of the Kirov Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia Vinogradov A. P. instructed the Chairman of Investigation Committee of Russia to report on the performed investigative activities. The progress of the investigation is under supervision of the Central Office of the Investigative Committee.