According to Chabad Shaliach Rav Zalman Deutsch, two Jews were among the at least 112 people who perished in the horrific nightclub fire in the Ural Mountain area industrial city of Perm.
The levayas of the two will take place in a local Jewish community on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, four people have been detained in connection with the nightclub fire – one of Russia’s worst blaze in decades.
The club’s owner, executive director, artistic director and a pyrotechnics contractor were held on Sunday pending an investigation into the blaze that occurred early on Saturday, federal investigators said.
The Investigative Committee said the suspects were ordered to be taken into custody on Sunday by the Leninsky district court on suspicion of negligence causing multiple deaths and violating fire safety rules, causing multiple deaths.
About 130 people remain in serious condition in hospitals in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities after being airlifted to major burns units.
Doctors have said that many of the injured have more than 50 percent burns and some are being kept alive by artificial respirators.
Witnesses say the fire was sparked by onstage fireworks that shot into the decorative twig ceiling of the Lame Horse club in the industrial city of Perm, about 1,150 km east of Moscow.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Isn’t it scary that, We jews are such a small percentage of the world but so many times there’s a big tragedy there were jews there.
For example the plane that went missing over the ocean,the plane that went down near niagra,the small plane that collided with a tourist helicopter over the Hudson
Maybe the reason is ,it says all bad things that happen to the world is supposed be a wake up call for all of us. Tishuva!!