Video footage on social media showed flames raging across
the horizon, engulfing houses and trees, while smoke blocked out
the sky.
"As a result of fires, 178 buildings, including 134
residential buildings, 32 non-residential buildings, have been
destroyed by fire," the ministry said on the Telegram messaging
app.
The fire has spread into the villages of Sosva and Tayozhny
and were consuming a total of more than 11,000 square meters. In
the village of Sosva one person has died.
The cause of the fire remains unclear. Russian emergency
services said that more than 380 personnel were involved into
containing the fire.
(Writing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; editing by Guy
Faulconbridge)
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, April 26 (Reuters) - At least one
person was killed and more than 178 buildings were destroyed in
fires raging through Russia's Sverdlovsk region in the Ural
mountains, Russia's emergency ministry said.
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