{"id":11883,"date":"2022-11-05T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2022-11-05T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T12:25:12","slug":"at-least-13-killed-in-russian-nightclub-fire-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/at-least-13-killed-in-russian-nightclub-fire-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 13 killed in Russian nightclub fire, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At least 13 people died in an overnight fire at a nightclub in the Russian city of Kostroma, officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kostroma is a city of around 270,000 people, 300 km (190 miles) north-east of Moscow on the banks of the river Volga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The fire took place at Polygon, a multi-purpose recreation venue used as a cafe, nightclub and bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;As a result of the fire, 13 people died; the number of dead and injured is being clarified,&#8221; the judicial Investigating Committee said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/arshad-sharif-killing-kenyan-cop-claims-they-were-fired-upon-first.html\">Arshad Sharif killing: Kenyan cop claims they were fired upon first<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The fire was extinguished as of 7:29 am (0429 GMT), according to the regional governor, who put the number of injured at five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Video shared by investigators showed firefighters spraying water on what appeared to be the smouldering, collapsed roof of the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">TASS news agency cited investigators as saying the fire may have started after a man fired a flare gun indoors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Investigators said they had launched criminal proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 13 people died in an overnight fire at a nightclub in the Russian city of Kostroma, officials said on Saturday. Kostroma is a city of around 270,000 people, 300 km (190 miles) north-east of Moscow on the banks of the river Volga. The fire took place at Polygon, a multi-purpose recreation venue used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}