A fire swept through a Moscow printingplant warehouse on Saturday, killing 17 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan, Russia's emergency services said
Moscow: A fire swept through a Moscow printingplant warehouse on Saturday, killing 17 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan, Russia's emergency services said.
A representative of the Kyrgyz community said the victims were all young women trapped in a dressing room while changing into their work clothes.
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The fire was caused by a faulty lamp on the first floor of the warehouse, where many flammable liquids and paper products were stored, and it spread quickly through an elevator shaft to the room where those who died, said Ilya Denisov, who heads the Moscow branch of the emergency services.
He said firefighters found the bodies of 16 workers and sent four injured workers to the hospital, where one later died.
Denisov, whose statements were carried by Russian news agencies, said the dead were all from Kyrgyzstan, and were believed to be working legally in Russia.
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