Seventeen migrant workers were killed in a fire today in a market warehouse on Moscow’s outskirts where they had been living, Russian emergency officials and media said.
Most of the victims were from Tajikistan and the others may have also come from ex-Soviet republics, state media
said. The pre-dawn blaze highlighted the dangerous conditions many labour migrants endure in Russia.
The space was not meant for people to live in,’ emergency official Sergei Gorbunov told state-run news
agency RIA.
The metal-sided two-storey building was used as a storage warehouse at a construction materials market, said
Gorbunov, deputy chief of the Emergency Situations department in Moscow’s southwestern district. The victims
had been living in makeshift quarters in the rear of the building, he said.
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