Elderly home fire kills 17 in Ukraine
Seventeen people died when an unlicenced home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of yesterday.
The fire tore through the two-storey building for the elderly in the village of Litochky, located some 50 kilometres north of Kiev.
Citing preliminary information, emergency service said that 35 people were at the home when the fire broke out. Eighteen people have been rescued and five of them have been hospitalised, said the service.
In post-Soviet countries such as Ukraine and Russia outdated infrastructure is still in widespread use amid an often lax approach to fire safety.
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