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Estonia declares mourning for children killed in orphanage fire.
TALLINN, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Estonia declared the day of
national mourning for the children, who died in a major fire breaking out at an orphanage in the town of Haapsalu, on Monday. The national flags will be lowered half-mast at the buildings housing state-run institutions and local self-government bodies, public and legal institutions, the Delfi web edition reported on Sunday.
Prime Minister Andrus Ansip will convene an urgent meeting, at which the interior and social security ministers will report to the government on the details of the tragedy at 10 a.m. local time on Monday.
The western Estonian rescue center reported preliminarily that ten
children died in the Haapsalu orphanage fire on Sunday. The fire was
confined two hours after the fire alarm call. The orphanage building was heavily damaged, some part of the wooden building tumbled down in the fire.
A supervisor of the rescue operation noted that the fire broke out in the wing of the building, where sick children were staying in bed. "The fire alarm call came at 2.30 p.m. local time, we rushed to the fire site three minutes later, but the rooms were already in flames by this time.
The rescuers entered the building and took away ten children, but it was too late," he said.
Some 43 children with severe disabilities, including half of them in wheelchairs, three young people, who were provided with all kinds of support for the life at the orphanage and a young girl, who needed the round-the-clock care. Some 37 children and nine adults were staying at the orphanage, when the fire broke out, the Delfi web edition reported. No probable reasons for the fire have been reported yet. The fire inspectors were already reported to check the orphanage building on January 19 and found no fire safety violations.
national mourning for the children, who died in a major fire breaking out at an orphanage in the town of Haapsalu, on Monday. The national flags will be lowered half-mast at the buildings housing state-run institutions and local self-government bodies, public and legal institutions, the Delfi web edition reported on Sunday.
Prime Minister Andrus Ansip will convene an urgent meeting, at which the interior and social security ministers will report to the government on the details of the tragedy at 10 a.m. local time on Monday.
The western Estonian rescue center reported preliminarily that ten
children died in the Haapsalu orphanage fire on Sunday. The fire was
confined two hours after the fire alarm call. The orphanage building was heavily damaged, some part of the wooden building tumbled down in the fire.
A supervisor of the rescue operation noted that the fire broke out in the wing of the building, where sick children were staying in bed. "The fire alarm call came at 2.30 p.m. local time, we rushed to the fire site three minutes later, but the rooms were already in flames by this time.
The rescuers entered the building and took away ten children, but it was too late," he said.
Some 43 children with severe disabilities, including half of them in wheelchairs, three young people, who were provided with all kinds of support for the life at the orphanage and a young girl, who needed the round-the-clock care. Some 37 children and nine adults were staying at the orphanage, when the fire broke out, the Delfi web edition reported. No probable reasons for the fire have been reported yet. The fire inspectors were already reported to check the orphanage building on January 19 and found no fire safety violations.
