{"id":11301,"date":"2021-01-21T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=152978"},"modified":"2021-01-21T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:52:40","slug":"at-least-15-killed-in-nursing-home-fire-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/at-least-15-killed-in-nursing-home-fire-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 15 killed In Nursing Home Fire In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/accd82b2-c0cd-448b-bd01-f6e47ab5235a_cx0_cy7_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Ukrainian officials say <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosvoboda.org\/a\/news-pozhezha-kharkiv\/31061754.html\">at least 15 people were killed<\/a><\/strong> after a blaze tore through a nursing home in the eastern city of Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>Nine people were rescued and were receiving treatment in hospital, the State Emergency Service said on January 21 , while Prosecutor-General Iryna Venedyktova <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MNS.GOV.UA\/posts\/5302676296416894\">said 11 people were injured<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Venedyktova said a criminal investigation had been launched and the preliminary cause of the tragedy was the &#8220;careless handling of electric heating devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The emergency service said the fire broke out at around 3 p.m. on the second floor of the two-story building while there were 33 people inside.<\/p>\n<p>It <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MNS.GOV.UA\/photos\/a.369362566414983\/5302463296438194\/\">published a photo<\/a><\/strong> of the building with bars on the windows of the first floor, while smoke billows out of broken windows on the second floor.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">With reporting by Reuters and AFP<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/21\/at-least-15-killed-in-nursing-home-fire-in-ukraine\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian officials say at least 15 people were killed after a blaze tore through a nursing home in the eastern city of Kharkiv. Nine people were rescued and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11302,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions\/11302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}