Moscow market inferno kills 17 migrant workers (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

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Published time: April 03, 2012 09:10
Edited time: April 04, 2012 11:32

Russian Civil Defense Ministry officers on the territory of Kachalovo market where twelve people died in a two-storied building fire (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Astapkovich)

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A fire that broke out in one of Moscow’s markets in the south of the capital has killed 17 people, believed to be migrant workers.

The disaster was thought to have been started by a faulty electrical heater that caught fire, triggering the blaze.

It took almost two hours to extinguish the inferno.

The migrant workers killed in fire were from former Soviet republics and were believed to be camped out at Kachalovsky market warehouse in squalid living conditions.

Moscow police have launched an investigation into the incident and have detained the market owner on charges of breaching fire safety regulations. Law enforcers are searching for two more people – the owner and the director of a tenant company that rented the premises at the market.

According to the Russian Federal Migration Service the men who died were likely to have worked as porters at market.

An official told Russian news agency Interfax that the victims of the blaze lived in a metal warehouse lined with insulation. They slept in very cramped conditions on bunks with no direct access to the street.

While news agency livenews.ru reports that according to experts from Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations the victims perished while trying to escape from the warehouse.

They were reportedly unable to reach the door because of the fire and could not get out of the windows as they were blocked with metal bars.

In a separate incident during the night, a fire tore through one of Moscow’s tallest skyscrapers. Twenty brigades of firemen battled the blaze in the giant building, still under construction and set to be the highest in Europe when finished.

Russia’s Emergencies Ministry sent two helicopters to the scene to help bring the blaze under control.

No injuries or casualties were reported.

(RIA Novosti / Vladimir Astapkovich)

Comments (23)

shlomo ehud 04.04.2012 03:40

did u know that if u take a new born jew reptile and u raise it as a christian, muslim, hindu or whatever, when it grows up the jew will come out of it and it will start acting like 1. such creatures are low life blood sucking degenerate fowl hideous treacherous conniving vile parasites

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Dr G (unregistered) 04.04.2012 01:19

I read a few negative comments about their nationality. What is wront with you people? They are people just like you, they have hopes and dreams like the rest of us.
It is a horrible tragedy regardless of where they come from

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san (unregistered) 03.04.2012 23:26

Humans stop reposting hasbara posts -you are helping them .Ignore them. I am very sorry about the people who lost their lifes.Google: "hasbara manual" People call them - HasbaRats. &nbs p;This is another false flag operation of jew-led opposition to before Putin's inauguration and to prevent registration of the patriotic parties. Jews want to provoke interethnic violence. Same tactic jews use in the USA.

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