About 400 people were evacuated from the nine-storey building on Leninsky Prospekt, a major avenue just to the southwest of the downtown core, a spokesperson for Russia’s federal emergencies ministry told RIA and Tass agencies.
At just before 1 am local time the fire covered an area of about 1 000 square meters, the spokesperson added.There was no immediate word on the cause of the fire.
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