25 January, Vitebsk /Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. Two children died in a fire today in the village of Velikoye Selo, Sharkovshchyna district, the Vitebsk Regional Emergency Management Department informed a BELTA correspondent. As a result of a fire in a private residential house, two boys, who turned 3 years old in December last year, perished. Neighbours, who were doing chores outside, noticed plumes of smoke coming from under the roof and from the windows. Running to the house, they found a padlock on the door and called the fire department. By the time the emergency services arrived at the scene, the house was engulfed in open flames, and the roof had partially collapsed inwards. Charred bodies of the children were found under the collapsed building structures. According to the Emergency Management Department, a large family lived in this house, with the mother raising six children. On this day, the elder children, born in 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2007, were at the Velikoye Selo Secondary School, while the mother left the younger ones alone in the locked house without supervision and, according to her, went to the shop. The cause of the fire is currently being established. The homeowner and her children will reside with her parents in the same settlement.-0-

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