Nine patients of a clinic for the mentally ill in Siberia died in a fire on Sunday, with another 15 hospitalized.
The fire in the psychiatric hospital in the Kemerovo region, erupted just one day after another blaze at Moscow's drug treatment centre killed 45.
Sergei Ovchinnikov is acting chief of the city’s hospital.
"We have received 15 patients. At the moment four of them are in the intensive care department, three are in therapy and eight are undergoing surgery."
Arson is considered one of the possible causes of the fire.
An inter-departmental commission has been set up to investigate the cause of the fire.
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