MOSCOW (Sputnik) \u2013 {At least 35 medical students, including eight foreigners, have been confirmed injured in a dormitory fire in southwestern Moscow, according to a police source.}<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to preliminary information, there are eight foreign citizens among the injured. Their citizenship is being established,\u201d the police source said.<\/p>\n
Police believe the fire could have started from an electrical short. The fire started in one of the dormitory rooms on the seventh floor of the 16-storey building and was extinguished at 11:33 p.m. local time (20:33 GMT) Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
According to the press service spokesperson, a total of 43 people were injured in the fire but not all of them required hospitalization.<\/p>\n
According to an emergencies services source, the foreign students are from Ghana, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Malaysia, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n
Police believe the fire could have started from an electrical short. The fire started in one of the dormitory rooms on the seventh floor of the 16-storey building and was extinguished at 11:33 p.m. local time (20:33 GMT) Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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