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Psychiatric hospital fire death toll hits five in Russia

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ROSTOV-ON-DON, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll in the May 4 fire at a psychiatric hospital in southern Russia has reached five, a local health department said Tuesday.

"A man died in hospital from burns and another from complications due to chronic disease," said Margarita Istimenko, the press secretary of the health department in the Rostov Region.

A total of 43 people were in the two-story building in the town of Daraganovka, when the fire started early morning.

Istimenko said six victims of the fire were released from hospital Saturday.

"Two [psychiatric hospital] nurses, three inmates are still in a hospital in the town of Taganrog, three others are in a burns unit in [the regional center] Rostov-on-Don, and the other is in intensive care," she said.

The preliminary cause of the fire has been put down to negligence.

It was the latest in a string of fires that have hit medical institutions in Russia over the past few months. A fire in an old people's home took the lives of 63 people in a small town in the Krasnodar Territory, southern Russia in March. Breaches in fire prevention measures were officially declared the cause of the tragedy.

In December, a fire in a Moscow addiction clinic killed 46 people, and another 10 were killed in a fire in a psychiatric and neurological clinic in the Kemerovo Region in Russia's southwestern Siberia.

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