Six killed, dozens missing in Russian nursing home fire Six people were killed, three dozen were missing after a fire burnt a nursing home in Moscow Fri. About 60 people were staying at the building and more than 20 were evacuated. The regional law enforcement department is investigating the circumstances of the fire. Firefighters try to extinguish the fire at a nursing home for mentally disabled seniors in Novgorod region, northwest of Moscow, Russia, Sept. About three dozen people were missing after a fire broke out at the nursing home, local media reported early Friday morning. Xinhua/Emergency Situations Ministry of Russia 13 (Xinhua) -- Six people were killed and about three dozen were missing after a fire burnt early Friday a mental health care home northwest of Moscow, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Moscow time (2300 GMT Thursday) at the men's ward of the one-story wooden facility in Luka village near Veliky Norgorod. About 60 people, including 15 bedridden patients, were staying at the building and more than 20 were evacuated, ministry spokesman Oleg Voronov said. "The fate of 37 patients remains unclear, but that does not mean they are dead," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying. The facility is keeping men over 60 years old and women over 55 and heavily disabled people over 18, who have chronic mental disorders and need permanent medical care. More than 70 emergency workers and 16 units of machinery were dispatched to the scene to extinguish the blaze. It is early to say about the reasons for the fire so far ... The cleanup of the clinic debris continues," an unnamed source in local emergency department told Itar-Tass. Another source said it was not ruled out that a patient was smoking in bed, fell asleep with a cigarette. The Russian Investigative Committee said earlier that "according to preliminary reports, a patient set himself and his bed on fire." A nurse's aide, who was saving people, died in the fire, said the anti-crime organization.