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Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Fire at Moscow dormitory for foreign students kills 1
By Vladimir Isachenkov
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — A pre-dawh fire swept though a
rundown Russian dormitory for quarantined for
eign students Monday, trapping many behind per
manently locked exits and causing some to leap
from the five-story building.
Thirty-six students died and nearly 200 were
injured, some from frostbite after fleeing half
naked into the bitter cold. The students — from
Asia, Africa and Latin America — had just arrived
in Moscow and were being held in the dorm await
ing medical checks before starting classes.
“It was like a horrible nightmare,” Abdallah
Bong, a student from Chad. “We saw them crying
for help and jumping out of the windows, and we
could do nothing to save them.”
Bong and other witnesses said dozens of fire
engines were slow to reach the blaze, jammed into
a narrow access road blocked by parked cars.
“Students had to do it all themselves, holding
mattresses for those who were jumping out,” said
Nafafe Tengna, a journalism student from Guinea.
The fire, believed to have been caused by an
electrical malfunction, engulfed the building at
People’s Friendship University. It burned for more
than three hours, though Moscow fire safety
department spokesman Yevgeny Bobylyov insist
ed that firefighters arrived on time and did their
job well.
Flames gutted most of the dorm above the ground
floor. Smoke poured from windows as a wet snow
fell in the early morning darkness. The fire left the
building’s concrete walls streaked with black soot,
and nearby trees were caked with ice that had formed
from water used to extinguish the blaze.
Once a showpiece of Soviet patronage of the
Third World, receiving generous state subsidies,
the university declined with the 1991 fall of com
munism. Still, it continued to draw students from
impoverished nations with its low tuition, such as
medical school costs of $1,2(X) a year.
Students said the dead and injured included citi
zens of China, Bangladesh. Vietnam, Ecuador,
Ethiopia, Tahiti, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Angola,
Ivory Coast, Morocco, Kazakhstan, the Dominican
Republic, Lebanon, Peru and Malaysia.
Lubov Zhomova of the Moscow
Directorate said 36 people died and 197olhi
injured 57 of them in serious or gravecood
A preliminary investigation pointed to aid |
meal problem, Deputy Interior Minister f
Nurgaliyev told President Vladimir Putin
inquired about the fire during a Cabinet sets
Some bystanders said the tire could have (i
started by electric heaters, which students i
get warm.
The university was founded in 1960anils,
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minister; its name was changed in 1992.fc.|
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