"Capital market" burns in Yakutsk
As press-service of Russian Emergency Ministry administration over Sakha republic informed, total area of fire is 600 sq. meters, trade tents are burning.
Report about fire was received by fire fighting service at 9:48 by local time. At 10:30 roof of 1-storied patterned-frame house on territory of market collapsed, at 11:22 ignition has been localized.
Fire is ranked as third, highest category of complexity. More than 10 fire-fighting units are involved in extinguishing of fire. Their actions are directed by head of republican administration of Emergency Ministry Valery Sukhoborov and his deputy Nikolai Sokolnikov.
Police encircled place of accident and evacuated Chinese tradesmen.
By tentative data, one Chinese citizen got injured. He is hospitalized; his state is estimated as severe.
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