<span style="color: #222222;">A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms to managers and fire safety chiefs blamed for a leisure centre inferno that killed 60 people. The fire engulfed the top floor of the Winter Cherry mall in March 2018, in the Siberian city of Kemerovo.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The cause was a short circuit in the lighting for a children's play area, and 37 of those killed were children.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Eight people were handed jail terms on Friday. Three other criminal cases concerning the fire remain in progress. The investigation concluded that Yulia Bogdanova, ex-CEO of the firm that owned the mall, and other managers had violated the leisure centre's fire safety regulations.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Bogdanova received a 14 year jail sentence while Nadezhda Suddenok, CEO of the Winter Cherry company which ran the mall, got 13 and a half years. Six others were also jailed for the disaster.</span>
News On AIR | October 29, 2021 7:12 PM
Kemerovo fire: Jail terms for bosses over Russian mall disaster