Published By: Adekunle Dada
30th July, 2018
At least eight people have died in a house fire in the Southern Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi, with three others brought to the hospital with burns, city officials said on Monday.
According to the city administration, the dead and injured were all foreign workers from Central Asia.
The fire broke out in the early hours of Monday and took two hours to be extinguished.
The cause of the fire was initially unclear.
According to news agency Interfax, the building served as accommodation for foreign workers and most of the dead were found in a cafe on the ground floor.
Local authorities have started investigations into the fire.
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