A woman has died after a fire raced through an apartment building in Almaty on August 1, with another 43 people, among them 26 children and two pregnant women, injured. A statement published on Facebook by the Almaty Public Health Department said the woman, born in 1992, died of "multiple injuries" suffered after she fell from the fifth or sixth floor of the 16-story building. Several people tried to escape the smoke and fire by jumping from windows. Some 250 to 300 people were rescued in the incident. To read the original story from RFE/RL's Kazakh Service, click here.
