Second Fire In Days Hits Shopping Mall Near Moscow

A fire burns in Barashika on December 12.

A fire has damaged a shopping mall in the Moscow region, just three days after a deadly fire hit another shopping center in the region. The Moscow region's emergency services said on December 12 that part of the roof of the StroiTrakt shopping mall collapsed after a fire hit the building in the town of Balashikha. No casualties were reported. On December 9, one person was killed in another fire that destroyed a shopping mall in the town of Khimki, near the Russian capital. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian story, click here.