A suspect in arson was detained in the pyrotechnics department of the Lenta hypermarket on Elizarovykh Street in Tomsk.
According to the press service of “Lenta”, the arsonist was an employee of the contractor organization of the hypermarket, who worked in the trading floor. It is reported that the suspect was detained by the police and confessed to the crime. There are no casualties, firefighters continue to work on extinguishing.
The fire is localized. The updated area of fire is 3.5 thousand square meters. m. About 200 people were evacuated.
“The fire started in the department that sells fireworks. This is arson. People saw that the hired worker – either a drug addict or someone else – poured something and set fireworks on there, and it started! We work, where there is a bakery and a cookery, heard the shooting, went out and saw that the fireworks were firing, ”one of the shopping center employees told VTomske.ru.
As Olga Svarovskaya, the director of one of the cosmetics stores leasing space in the shopping center, told the agency in turn, the tenants’ stores all burned down, everything burned down. “The damage I have is three and a half million for sure. This is at least, ”she said.
Source: Rosbalt
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