The on-duty public prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office (VJT) in Belgrade is conducting an inspection at the scene where eight residents of a nursing home in Barajevo died in a fire last night, said Nenad Stefanović, the chief public prosecutor of the VJT in Belgrade.
He added that there is reason to suspect that the fire was set by one of the residents of the home, who also perished.
“An autopsy of the fire victims has been ordered, and all the circumstances of this case are being determined, after which the VJT in Belgrade will decide on further steps,” Stefanović said.
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From members of the Ministry of the Interior, it could be heard this morning that the fire is suspected to have been arson, and Novosti published that the fire was caused by a person who set fire to a mattress in a room of the nursing home and that person died in the fire.
As a reminder, eight people died and seven were injured in a fire that broke out around 3:30 a.m. today in a nursing home in Veliki Bork in the Belgrade municipality of Barajevo.
The fire has been extinguished, and a large number of firefighters and fire engines were involved in extinguishing it.
This is a nursing home with a capacity of 40 residents.
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