Investigators are establishing the circumstances of a fire that killed three people in the Minsk region

Screenshot of the Investigative Committee video 23 January, MINSK . An investigative task force is working at the site of a fire in Minsk District that claimed the lives of three people, the Investigative Committee told BELTA.

On the afternoon of 23 January, in the agro-town of Gorodishche, Minsk District, workers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations found the bodies of two men, aged 34 and 56, and a 77-year-old woman while extinguishing
 
a fire in a residential building. According to preliminary information, the pensioner, her son, and grandson had been drinking ALCOHOL the morning before the tragedy. After drinking alcohol, the family went to bed in the same room. Some time later, concerned neighbors noticed smoke coming from the window of the house and called the rescuers.

An investigative task force is currently working at the site of the tragedy. Several versions of the causes of the fire are being preliminarily considered, among the most probable is careless handling of fire while smoking. All the circumstances of the incident will be established during the investigation by the Minsk District Department of the Investigative Committee.