Russia mall fire: 11 children, 42 others die in Siberia's Kemerovo; updates

Russian state investigators said four people, including the owners and leasers of outlets inside the shopping mall, had been detained over the fire

At least 53 people, including 11 children, were killed by a fire in a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said on Monday. The fire, one of the deadliest in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, swept through the upper floors of the mall where a cinema complex and children's play arena were located.

Russian emergency services said the fire, which started on Sunday afternoon, had now been extinguished but that rescuers were struggling to reach the upper floors because the roof of the building had collapsed. More than a dozen people