A fire

“The fifth floor of a 16-storey building on Mezhdunarodnaya Street in the center of Moscow is on fire,” the emergency services said.

The press service of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the fire had engulfed the fifth floor of the MKM hotel in the center of Moscow.

MKM, or DK Moskabelmet, is a Russian company producing cable products. It is one of the leaders in the production of cable and wire products in Russia.

Currently, 50 people have been rescued by the fire service, 7 of them are children. At the same time, medical services reported that 5 people were injured during the fire, including one child.

Updated at 21:50:

According to preliminary data from Russian emergency services, the cause of the fire in the building with the hotel is arson.

A fire broke out in a warehouse with plastic in the Russian village of Nakhabino, near Moscow, in the urban district of Krasnogorsk.

37 people and 11 pieces of equipment are involved in the fight against fire. From the EMERCOM of Russia – four pieces of equipment and 14 employees.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, in about half an hour the area of ​​​​the fire doubled – from 700 square meters. m to 1.4 thousand sq. m. m. Nothing is reported about the causes of the fire.