One Dead, Four Injured In Prison Fire In Northwestern Russia - Investigative Committee

One prisoner died and four others were hospitalized in a fire outbreak on the territory of a penal colony in the Russian city of Valday in the Novgorod region, the local department of the Investigative Committee said on Monday

ST. PETERSBURG (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th December, 2021) One prisoner died and four others were hospitalized in a fire outbreak on the territory of a penal colony in the Russian city of Valday in the Novgorod region, the local department of the Investigative Committee said on Monday.

"On December 6, a fire broke out in one of the premises of the penal colony �� 4 in the Novgorod region.

When putting out the fire, a body of the man born in 1994 was found in one of the cells. Four more prisoners were hospitalized," the committee said in a statement.

A source in the emergency services told Sputnik that the incident occurred in a solitary cell of a one-story brick building.

"The area of the fire was 9 square meters (3.4 square miles)," the source said.

Investigators are examining the scene to establish the circumstances of the incident.