Three children died and another was fighting for his life after a fire ripped through a summer camp in the Russian far east in the early hours of Tuesday, the regional authorities said.
The blaze tore through a private children's tent camp in the Khabarovsk region, destroying 20 tents and killing a girl on her 11th birthday.
Two other girls suffered extensive burns and later died in hospital, according to a spokeswoman for the regional authorities, Nadezhda Tomchenko.
"Their injuries were incompatible with life," Tomchenko told AFP.
A boy was also in "a very bad condition and fighting for his life," she added. "The situation does not look good."
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