A fire broke out in the Rio shopping center (1 Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya St.) in Moscow, RBC reports, citing the capital's Emergencies Ministry.
Source: Moscow Prosecutor's Office
According to preliminary data, there are no casualties. Emergency services report that the building's cladding caught fire from the first to the fourth floor, the fire was assigned the second complexity number out of five. The open fire was later extinguished.
As reported on the Telegram channel of the capital's prosecutor's office, the exact cause of the incident will be determined based on the results of a fire-technical examination.
The owner of the shopping center is the company "Tashir". The owner reported that the fire started at about 8:30, before the opening of the center. "Employees were evacuated, emergency services were called. All systems worked as expected. According to our information, the source of the fire was not in the building itself. Emergency services are investigating the cause. At the moment, the fire has been localized," – reported "Tashir".
The Rio shopping center chain in Moscow includes three shopping complexes. The Sevastopolsky center is located on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya, the other two are on Leninsky Prospekt and Dmitrovskoye Shosse.
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