Six people, including two children, died as a result of a fire that broke out in a five-story residential building in the Aktau settlement of the Karaganda region, Kazakhstan, Department of Emergency Situations of the Karaganda region said, Report informs, referring to the Kazakh press.
The fire broke out in a three-room apartment located on the first floor of the building at night.
Five of the dead were suffocated by smoke while trying to leave the apartments on the upper floors.
Firefighters rescued ten people, including four children, from the smoke-filled apartments.