fire safety Siberia

Firefighters tenderly carry the little pigs to safety during four hour battle to extinguish fire.

The child victims were aged between 18 months and seven years and perished in a wooden one-storey house in Yelovoye village in Krasnoyarsk region.

He spoke out as Premier Dmitry Medvedev was in Siberia on a trip substantially aimed at leading efforts to combat the serious forest fires.

Victims burned to death while fighting blaze after three massive explosions.

Huge damage wrought by forest fires is sparked by failure to apply safety laws, complained Yuri Chaika.

Subsidence from old coal mine a possible cause of latest mystery hole.

All residents 'safely evacuated' as the tower was engulfed in flames.

Pro-Kremlin eco-groups echo Greenpeace concerns by highlighting burning of forests which do not appear in government reports.