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Seven killed, five injured in Moscow apartment fire

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MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - A fire broke out in a Moscow apartment building during the night, killing seven and injuring five, a firefighting official said Saturday.

Yevgeny Bobylev, spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry's Firefighting Service, said the fire at a nine-story building on Kamchatskaya Str. in eastern Moscow broke out at 3.53 a.m. Moscow time [12:53 a.m. GMT], and was extinguished at 5.27 a.m.

"According to the latest reports, seven people have been killed and five injured. Firefighters rescued 58 people," the official said.

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