An incident occurred in the Saryarkin district of Astana on Beybarys Sultan Street, where an apartment on the ninth floor of a high-rise building caught fire.
"Thanks to the swift measures taken, we managed to prevent the spread of the fire to neighboring apartments. The fire was extinguished over an area of 30 square meters. The cause is under investigation," – reported the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The apartment owner, born in 1970, was handed over to the medical emergency staff.
On the morning of January 26, a similar fire occurred in a high-rise building in an apartment on the tenth floor in Astana. Emergency services rescued five people.