Two people died in a fire in a private house in Postavy

July 18, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Two people died in a fire in a private house in Postavy, Vitebsk region, the press secretary of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Marina Fando, told a BELTA correspondent.

A report of a fire in a one-story house, designed for two apartments, was received by the district emergency department at night on July 16. The smell of smoke woke up the residents of one of the apartments; the owner, his wife, and mother-in-law left the premises on their own and were not injured as a result of the incident.

A woman born in 1947 lived in the second apartment with a male acquaintance, an unemployed local resident born in 1968. Their bodies were found in different rooms of the apartment. The preliminary cause of the fire is considered to be carelessness when smoking by a man who was in a state of intoxication. According to eyewitnesses, the deceased were drinking alcoholic beverages the day before.

As a result of the fire, a bed burned down in the apartment, and property was damaged.

According to operational data, a total of 808 fires have occurred in the region since the beginning of the year, killing 134 people, including three children. Compared to the same period in 2010, the number of deaths in fires increased by 5.5%.-0-