Identity of Azerbaijani killed in fire in Russia’s Kazan revealed (UPDATE)

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Identity of Azerbaijani killed in fire in Russia’s Kazan revealed (UPDATE)

13 Mart 2015, 12:12·70 baxış·3 dəq oxu

Details added (first version posted on 10:45)

Baku, Azerbaijan, March 13

By Seba Aghayeva - Trend:

The fire in the ‘Admiral’ shopping center in Kazan killed an Azerbaijani citizen, Parviz Pashayev, born 1995, the Emergency Situations Ministry of Russia’s Tatarstan Republic told Trend March 13.

Pashayev’s dead body was recovered from the shopping center’s rubble on March 12, said the ministry.

Earlier it was announced that two Azerbaijanis got injured in the fire. Their names are still unknown.

A criminal case was launched regarding the case, on the Russian Criminal Code’s article “Violation of fire safety requirements, resulting in death by negligence.”

The investigation believes the fire could have occurred due to short circuit. Other possible reasons include safety rules violation.

Rescuers continue to retrieve dead bodies from the rubble at the site. Last night the remains of five people were found and removed from rubble, bringing the total number of the tragedy to ten.

TASS news agency earlier quoted the chief of the Volga Regional Center of Russia’s Emergency Ministry, Igor Panshin, as saying that in total there can be up to 25 people under the rubble.

Among the killed and injured in the fire, there are citizens of several other states. Aside from Azerbaijanis and Russians, the lists of the dead included the names of Tajik people. Among the 55 injured, there are two citizens of Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan each, a citizen of Tajikistan.

“All the dead bodies found in the last hours were on the left side of the building, near the fourth exit,” said the head of the press service of Tatarstan’s Emergency Situations Ministry, Andrei Rodygin.

He said the fire in the shopping center started in a café on the building’s right side, and many sellers tried to take away goods through the left entrance.

“Nobody was expecting that the overlap over the entire area of the building will simultaneously collapse,” Rodygin said.

Tatarstan’s prosecutor’s office will conduct its own inspection. The senior aide of Tatarstan’s prosecutor for media relations, Ruslan Galiyev, said, “a criminal case is under special control in the republican prosecutor’s office.”

The “Soviet” District Court of Kazan is to choose on March 13 a measure of restraint against the main tenant of the ‘Admiral’ shopping center, the head of the company ‘Zarya’ Huseyin Gahramanov, who was previously detained at the request of the prosecutor’s office.