At least one person has died following a fire at the Perseus shopping centre in the west of Moscow.

Video on social media showed thick black smoke rising from the blue mall building. According to multiple reports, the blaze began in a toys stockroom on the third floor, before spreading to the roof of the building. Three hundred people were evacuated.

Russian investigators said they had opened a criminal case into the fire, which fire crews succeeded in putting out on Wednesday afternoon.

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The investigating committee said it would look into whether the fire had been caused by negligence.

It comes less than two weeks after a major fire at a shopping centre in Kemerovo, Siberia, killed 64 people, most of them children.

On Sunday, the Kremlin said the governor of the Siberian region where that fire took place had resigned.

The statement said Aman Tuleyev had offered his resignation and that it was accepted by the president, Vladimir Putin. Mr Tuleyev had headed the Kemerovo region for more than 20 years.</s>MOSCOW — Russian officials say a fire in a Moscow shopping centre has killed one person and injured six.

Ilya Denisov, head of the Emergency Situations Ministry’s Moscow branch, said the fire Wednesday at a shopping centre in an eastern Moscow district killed an employee and left six firefighters injured. Denisov said the employee went in the opposite direction from the emergency exit and suffocated.

Authorities did not give the cause but said the fire started in a storage area on the top floor.

The fire happened just a week after a fire in a Siberian shopping mall claimed 64 lives, shocking the nation.

Authorities vowed to step up fire safety, and stores and offices across Russia began conducting fire drills and checking fire-fighting equipment.</s>One person killed in fire in Moscow shopping mall

One person has been killed in a fire in the Persey Dlya Detey (Perseus for Children) children’s shopping mall in Moscow, the ambulance service told TASS.

"The victim evacuated from the burning facility has died in the ambulance. Efforts to save him have failed," the source said.

Three firefighters have been injured in the fire, said Ilya Denisov, head of the Main Directorate for Moscow at the Emergencies Ministry. "Three firefighters have been injured," he told reporters.

The blaze that scorched 80 square meters has been extinguished.</s>Head of the Moscow's Emergency Ministry, Ilya Denisov, said: "During the investigation, a dead employee was found.

A 45-year-old employee named Alexey Karpov, was killed at Persei Dlya Detei (Perseus For Children) shopping centre.

Witnesses said: “Flames tore through the complex.”

Some 600 people - including many children - were evacuated from the Moscow shopping centre.

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“According to the administration, he was confused about the direction of the evacuation exit and moved to a smoky zone.”

Video captured at the scene shows thick black smoke rising from the shopping centre.

According to multiple reports, the blaze began in a toys stockroom on the third floor, before spreading to the roof of the building.

The fire has now been put out, RIA news agency said, citing a source in emergency services.</s>Moscow: One person has died in a fire at a shopping mall in eastern Moscow on Wednesday, TASS news agency said, citing medical staff.

The fire has now been put out, RIA news agency said, citing a person in the know in emergency services. It earlier said that the fire had broken out at the four-storey ‘Perseus for Childen’ shopping mall which sells children’s goods.

In March, a total of 64 people, most of them children, dead in a fire at a Siberian shopping mall.</s>At least one person died Wednesday when a fire broke out at a children's shopping complex in the Russian capital Moscow.

Another four people were injured in the blaze at the Perseus children's mall, emergency services said.</s>More than 100 people have been evacuated from a shopping center for children's goods in Moscow after a fire broke out in a storage area on an upper floor, Russian media reports say.

The state-run news agency TASS cited medical personnel as saying that one person was killed in the fire at the Persei Dlya Detei (Perseus For Children) shopping center on April 4.

Media reports cited emergency and firefighting officials as saying that at least 115 people were evacuated from the building.

Firefighters were looking for people in the four-story, 6,000-square-meter building in eastern Moscow, and it was not immediately clear whether anyone remained inside.

A fire at a shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on March 25 killed 64 people, including 41 children, and raised severe concerns about safety in in such buildings.

Investigators said that, at the mall in Kemerovo, fire exits were blocked, the public address system had been shut off by a guard, and the fire alarm system was out of service.

President Vladimir Putin blamed the fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) mall in Kemerovo on "criminal negligence" and "slovenliness," and vowed that those responsible would be punished.

Based on reporting by RIA, Interfax, TASS, and Dozhd</s>Police have reported there are casualties after a fire broke out in a shopping mall in Moscow.

The Persei shopping mall in Moscow's east is being evacuated after a blaze broke out on the fourth floor on Wednesday.

It comes after a deadly blaze at a mall in the city of Kemerovo left 64 dead, most of them children.</s>April 4 (UPI) -- One person is dead after a fire broke out in the Perseus for Children shopping mall in Moscow on Wednesday.

A male victim died in an ambulance after he was evacuated from the burning facility. He was reportedly an employee who was confused about the direction of the blaze and moved to a smoky zone instead of the evacuation exit.

Nearly 600 people were evacuated from the mall, with around 20 rescued by firefighters.

Three firefighters were injured in the fire, Ilya Denisov, head of the Main Directorate for Moscow at the Emergencies Ministry, said.

The mall's evacuation systems, smoke protection, automatic fire extinguishing and personnel were in good working condition at the time of the blaze, the Emergency Ministry added.

The fire reportedly broke out in a toy stockroom on the third floor of the building and spread to the roof. Russian investigators say they are opening a criminal probe into the fire.

The latest shopping center blaze follows a deadly fire last week at the Zimnyaya Vishnya mall -- also known as the Winter Cherry mall -- in the Siberian city of Kemerovo killed at least 60 people. Children were among the casualties.</s>Ramraiders who smashed through the doors of a Newmarket's Guineas Shopping Centre escaped with a cash machine.

The gang drove a stolen 4x4 at speed through the centre's double glass doors and loaded the cash dispenser into a second car before making their escape.

The incident, just before midnight on Easter Monday, caused extensive damage to the shopping centre which partially re-opened this morning.

Police said that the indoor part of the shopping centre will remain closed while detectives investigate and the centre management repairs the damage caused in the raid.

A spokeswoman said: "We are aware of an incident at The Guineas Shopping Centre today. The centre is currently partially close and will be open in due course. Police are investigating and we cannot comment further."

The doctors surgery is still open, but the Guineas multi-storey car park is closed.

A police spokesman said: "Anyone with any information are asked to call Suffolk Police on 101 and quote incident reference SC-02042018-462."
A fire at the Perseus shopping centre in western Moscow kills at least one person and injures at least six others.