Five calves died in a fire at a farm in the Postavy district

February 28, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Five calves under one month old died, and ten more animals were saved in a farm fire in the Postavy district, the press secretary of the Vitebsk regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Marina Fando, told a BELTA correspondent. The incident occurred on the night of February 27 in the village of Mankovichi at a farm owned by OJSC "Znamya Pobedy - Agro". The arriving firefighters had to simultaneously extinguish the fire, the epicenter of which was in the guardhouse, and rescue animals. The Ministry of Emergency Situations workers managed to save the lives of 10 calves under one month old, and rescuers also evacuated 200 head of cattle. A total of 215 animals were on the farm, with adult cattle and young stock kept in separate rooms. The guard of the agricultural enterprise, born in 1970, was injured in the fire. The man received burns of varying severity on his hands and face and was hospitalized at the Postavy Central Hospital. The suspected cause of the fire is carelessness when smoking by an employee of the agricultural enterprise, who, according to preliminary data, was intoxicated. As a result of the incident, the guardhouse premises inside the agricultural building burned down. -0-