On March 18, Minsk /BelTA correspondent/. A fire broke out in one of the apartments of a five-story residential building in the town of Novolukoml on the night from Saturday to Sunday. Rescuers who arrived at the scene evacuated neighbors – 20 people, the duty officer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus told a BelTA correspondent. The suspected culprits of the emergency – the owner of the apartment where the fire occurred and his guest – were rescued. They did not require hospitalization. According to the preliminary version, smoking while intoxicated became the cause of the night disturbance. Due to an unextinguished cigarette, property in one of the rooms was damaged. In total, over the past day, 31 fires occurred in Belarus, in which five people died, three were rescued, and one person was injured. -0-

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