Overview
- The blaze broke out in a private house on Chernyshevskogo Street in the village of Namtsy, the administrative center of Namsky District in Yakutia.
- Operational services reported the victims were children born in 2013, 2015, and 2016.
- The Prosecutor's Office of Yakutia placed the case under supervisory control and is working to establish the cause and circumstances of the fire.
- Authorities opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Article 109 of the Russian Criminal Code, which covers causing death by negligence involving two or more people.
- District prosecutor Andrey Yakovlev travelled to the scene as emergency and investigative teams continued their fact-finding.