And once again, a tragedy. In the Braslav district, three people lost their lives in a fire.

The night silence was broken by the sirens of the fire truck in the Braslav district. On July 23 at 02:11, rescuers received a report of a house fire in the village of Matyshi of the Akhremovetskiy rural council.

Emergency services immediately dispatched units to the scene. Upon arrival, the entire house was engulfed in flames.

During the reconnaissance in one of the rooms of the burning house, rescuers discovered the charred body of a man born in 1997 on the floor under a layer of collapsed roof and ceiling structures, then the lifeless body of another man born in 1991, and after some time, the body of a woman born in 1994 without signs of life.

The owner, born in 1968, resides in the agro-town of Akhremovtsy in the Braslav district and inherited the property this year.

As it turned out from the circumstances of the investigation, a day before the tragedy, the owner's relatives (son, nephew with his common-law wife, and another nephew) came to rest and settled in an uninhabited house. The young people decided to relax, and there was no shortage of alcoholic beverages during those days, and everyone in the company smoked. On the fateful day, closer to noon, the young people went to the cemetery to visit their grandfather, after which they went to the bathhouse of a neighbor and continued to consume alcoholic beverages. Around midnight, one of the men stayed overnight at the neighbor's house, while three returned to their previous place of lodging.

The fire destroyed the roof and ceiling of the house and damaged the walls.

The cause of the fire is being established. The preliminary version is careless handling of fire while smoking by one of the deceased.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations reminds: carelessness while smoking is one of the main causes of fires. Do not put yourself and those around you in danger. Give up the harmful habit – do not smoke in bed.