64+ people died in a huge fire at Russian shopping centre

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/europe/russia-kemerovo-shopping-center-fire-intl/index.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-mall-fire-kemerovo-siberia-1.4592488

From CNN:

Fire exits were blocked and an alarm system was turned off in the Russian shopping center where 64 people died in a huge fire, officials said.

Russia's Investigative Committee said it had discovered "serious violations" in its inquiry into the blaze in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, which killed at least 64 people, many of them children.

Around ten people are still missing after the blaze broke out on Sunday afternoon, when the mall was packed with shoppers and cinema goers. Ten others are in hospital, Vladimir Puchkov, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told journalists Monday.

From CBC:

With the fire alarms silent and staff reportedly nowhere to be seen, a fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess killed at least 64 people in eastern Russia.

The fire at the Winter Cherry mall in Kemerovo, a city in Siberia, about 3,000 kilometres east of Moscow, was extinguished by Monday morning after burning through the night. Firefighters were still recovering bodies as parts of the buildings were still smouldering. Some of the dead were found inside a cinema.

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Ten people have been hospitalized. Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova, who visited the Keremovo hospital where the victims were receiving treatment, said on Russian state television that the patient in the gravest condition is an 11-year-old boy who jumped out of a window from the fourth floor. The boy's parents and younger brother died in the fire, Skvortsova said.

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Sad 

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can't imagine how horrible the victim's relatives and survivors must feel at the moment...

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Yikes 

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that last paragraph

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May the perished rest in peace.

My mom told me the majority of victims were elementary school students. This is so horrible.