On March 11, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The condition of children injured in the fire at the Rosson school is assessed as satisfactory, the Vitebsk Children's Regional Clinical Hospital informed a BELTA correspondent. Currently, five schoolchildren are in the hospital in Vitebsk: one boy and four girls, with bruises and limb fractures. Their health condition does not cause concern among medics. Following a medical council meeting scheduled for Monday, March 12, a decision may be made to discharge some children home. According to Galina Podvitskaya, Deputy Chairperson of the Rosson District Executive Committee, classes at the burnt school have resumed. A check of the fire safety status of all general education and preschool institutions has been carried out in the district. As reported, on March 7 at 8:00 AM, the Rosson Department for Emergency Situations received a report of a fire in the 3-story building of the Masherov Rosson Secondary School. Four units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were dispatched to the scene. Together with the school administration, 575 children and 36 teachers were evacuated. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there were no casualties from burns or carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of the incident. The school building was not damaged, only the walls were smoke-stained. According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire was the careless handling of fire by an unidentified person, which led to the ignition of stacked waste paper. Several schoolchildren, frightened by the heavy smoke, began to jump out of the windows and sustained injuries of varying severity. Initially, eight injured children sought medical attention; seven were hospitalized at the Rosson Central District Hospital, and then six of them were transferred to the Children's Regional Hospital. One injured child has already been discharged home. The Investigative Committee Department for the Vitebsk Region has initiated a criminal case based on the fire at the Rosson Secondary School under Article 304 of the Criminal Code of Belarus "Violation of fire safety rules, resulting in grievous and less grievous bodily harm." -0-

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