MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Five people, including four children, died in a house fire in Russia's Volga republic of Bashkiria, a police source said on Monday.
The fire broke out on Sunday in a house in the village of Amzibash in the Kaltasinsk region. "The building was burnt to the ground," the source said, adding that the woman, who owned the house, and her children were killed.
The fire is believed to have been started by a cigarette, the source said.
