A terrible tragedy occurred in Irkutsk when a mother saved her children by throwing them from the fifth floor of a burning apartment to her neighbors. However, the woman herself, her husband and nine-year-old son died.
According to information from SHOT, the incident occurred late in the evening in a house on Sovetskaya Street. The fire started in an apartment on the fifth floor, where a married couple lived with three children — 4, 7 and 9 years old. The windows were on fire and thick black smoke was pouring out of them. Despite the danger, the mother managed to bring her 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son to the window and throw them down. The neighbors, who managed to run out of the burning building, deftly caught the children. Then the woman herself tried to save herself by jumping out of the window, but died.
As a result of this tragedy, the rescued children are now in intensive care, but their parents and 9-year-old older brother died. The preliminary cause of the fire was an electrical short circuit. The regional prosecutor's office has already opened a criminal case and intends to thoroughly understand all the circumstances of this sad tragedy.