Fire in Kharkiv elderly care home kills 15

Firefighters are extinguishing a fire in a two-story apartment building on Nyzhnia Hyivska Street in Kharkiv, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine has reported.

"On January 21, at 15:03, at 150-B Nyzhnia Hyivska Street in Kharkiv, a fire broke out on the second floor of a two-story apartment building, converted into an elderly care home. As of 16:05, 15 bodies were found at the scene, and five people were injured," the report reads.

According to the report, the area of the fire is 100 square meters.

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