{"id":7163,"date":"2021-01-11T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=148407"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:00:58","slug":"seven-elderly-people-killed-in-siberia-nursing-home-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/11\/seven-elderly-people-killed-in-siberia-nursing-home-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Elderly People Killed In Siberia Nursing Home Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/002adc68-f4e3-4a66-8a65-549669b9fa37_cx0_cy17_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>TYUMEN, Russia &#8212; Russian authorities say a fire at a private nursing home in western Siberia has killed seven people.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Russia&#8217;s Tyumen region said on January 10 that the retirement home in the town of Borovsky wasn&#8217;t registered with authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The owner and two elderly people managed to escape the house when the fire hit the building overnight, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were more than 70 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Investigative Committee said in a <a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/tyumen.sledcom.ru\/news\/item\/1528231\/\">statement<\/a> that the retirement home&#8217;s owner, a woman, whose identity was not disclosed, was detained and could face charges of unintended manslaughter and violating safety regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative Committee chief Aleksandr Bastrykin took the probe into the incident under his personal control, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly fires caused by violations of safety regulations or faulty wiring are common in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month ago, a <a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/fire-in-retirement-home-in-russia-s-bashkortostan-kills-11-people\/31001751.html\">fire in a private retirement house<\/a> in Russia&#8217;s Republic of Bashkortostan killed 11 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/11\/seven-elderly-people-killed-in-siberia-nursing-home-fire\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYUMEN, Russia \u2014 Russian authorities say a fire at a private nursing home in western Siberia has killed seven people. Officials in Russia\u2019s Tyumen region said on January\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163"}],"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=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}