13 January 2004
Double house fire kills two in Brest region

 Two men died in a double house fire in the village of Sedruzh near Kamenets, Brest region, on Sunday.
On arrival at the scene after a call came in at around 2 a.m., firefighters saw the burning remains of a house belonging to a 64-year-old man and the house of a 41-year-old man ablaze, the press office of
the regional emergency department told BelaPAN. The two structures were located 800 feet apart.
The charred bodies of the two men were later found inside the wreckage.
The police assume that the older man, registered with the local mental clinic, may first have set fire to his own home and then to the other man's. Fires have taken seven human lives in the Brest region since the beginning of the year, according to the regional emergency department.