A fire broke out in a residential building on Khocali Avenue in Baku’s Khatai district at 11:10 a.m., authorities reported.

A fire broke out in a residential high-rise building in Baku on Thursday evening, prompting an emergency response and the evacuation of residents, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

A fire broke out in a 17-story residential building in Baku’s Khatai district, damaging a 119-square-meter apartment on the 16th floor. Firefighters quickly contained the blaze, preventing it from spreading to neighboring units.

Four people, including two children, died in a fire that broke out early on 5 December in the Gobu Park-1 residential complex in Baku’s Lokbatan settlement.

Four people were killed and four others poisoned by smoke in a fire at a multi-storey building in the Gobu Park-1 complex, Lokbatan, Garadagh district, Baku.

Authorities have launched a criminal case on charges of murder.

An explosion at an eight-storey apartment building in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, caused part of the building to collapse on Friday, killing two people and injuring 12 others, local media reported.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has arrested a Russian agent “caught red-handed” while attempting to plant explosives in a residential apartment building in the western city of Rivne, the agency announced on Tuesday.

A 5-alarm fire is ravaging an apartment building in the Allerton section of the Bronx, New York City, with heavy winds fueling the flames.