Minsk, Oct 13: Residents of the Belarusian village of Randilovichy were in shock today after a local psychiatric hospital burned down, killing 30, in what officials called the worst fire in the former soviet republic in 50 years. "Nobody is doing anything, no one has eaten, everyone is so weighed down by this," a woman who lives in the Randilovichy village, around 200 km west of the capital Minsk, told Belarusian television.
The fire broke out at the psychiatric hospital at Randilovichy in the early hours yesterday, killing 30 people, most of them patients, minister for emergency situations Valery Astapov told reporters.
One person was missing and probably also died in the blaze, which may have been caused by a patient at the hospital known to be pyromaniac.
Bureau Report