MOSCOW A fire rapidly sterilized through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, most of them in their beds, proctors voiced.
Officials from the Department of Health said the hospital building of brick and wood on one level discovered patients with miserly mental disorders.
A ministry of last-minute situations said the fire started in a wooden wrangle and then quilt usually brick building, which had wooden rafters.
Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova said that half of the patients claimed sedatives overnight. He caused the confirmation that patients were not tied to their beds and received no therapy that would unconscious and unable to skip.
At least 29 people were burnt alive, said Irina Gumennaya, spokesman for the Federal Research Commission.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but there are reports that a short-circuit is the suspect. Most of the victims are affirmed to patients in the hospital, but two nurses were also assured dead. A third nurse and controlled to preserve two patients are the ones who made it out alive of 41 persons in the hospital at that time.
Investigators have spoken the 38 dead compiled 36 patients additionally two doctors. They said that a nurse was able to shrink and save a patient, while another patient, left to themselves. The Ministry of Emergency Situations has also published a list of patients who exhibited that they were between the ages of 20-76. Gumennaya told Russian news agencies that most of the people who died in their beds.
"After the fire alarm went off, a nurse ... Saw the fire down a hallway. I tried to remove it but could not and did two patients," RIA extended emergency official Yuri Deshyovykh as saying.
Fire in Russian state institutions such as hospitals, schools, centers, drug treatment and homes for the elderly and disabled have caused many casualties in recent years and raised suspects about the safety allowances condition and elimination routes.
More than 12,000 people have died in fires in 2011 and more than 7,700 in the first nine months of 2012 in Russia, where the per capita mortality rate of fire is higher than in Western countries, including the United States