Two girls aged 15 and 17 died in a house fire in Nihoreni village of Rascani district in the morning of January 4. It is presumed that the fire was caused by a faulty portable electric stove, IPN reports.
According to the Civil Protection and Emergencies Service, the parents of the girls were in the house when the fire started, but weren’t affected as they slept in another room. Firefighters established that the fire engulfed only the room where the girls were sleeping and this was 15 square meters in area. The two bodies were found carbonized.
All the circumstances and cause of the fire are to be found out by specialists of the General Inspectorate for Emergencies.
