Overview
- Police in Novosibirsk identified the suspect and, with Tomsk police and National Guard support, detained him in Tomsk on October 21.
- The detainee was transferred to regional investigators in Novosibirsk for further procedural actions in the case.
- Authorities say the man previously had convictions for similar offenses and is accused of setting fires at two houses on 2nd Pereulok Rimskogo-Korsakova.
- The nighttime blaze on October 18 burned about 600 square meters of a 1941 wooden multi-apartment building, causing a partial roof collapse.
- Four people died, three were hospitalized, and 26 residents were evacuated as investigators pursue a case for the murder of two or more persons by a socially dangerous method.