BELGRADE, Aug 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Six people, including four children, died Friday in a fire that broke out in a suburb of the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad, officials said.
The fire started around 3:00 am local time and the victims are all believed to be members of the same family, Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said.
Police and emergency services attended the scene of the fire, which has now been extinguished.
The minister said the fire was believed to have been caused by an electric scooter that was connected to the power grid.
Dacic said that the internal ministry was “working intensively to determine all the circumstances of this tragic event”. — NNN-AGENCIES
