Entire village burns down in Kharkiv region due to forest fire: four people killed – police

14:52, 03.10.2024 1 min read

In Kharkiv region, a forest fire destroyed the entire village of Pisky-Radkivski, four people were burned alive, according to Serhiy Bolvynov, head of the investigative department of the National Police in Kharkiv region.

"An entire village burned down - more than a thousand houses were destroyed due to a forest fire. Four people were burned alive: two female IDPs, another local woman and a man. They just didn't have time to escape - the flames spread at a furious pace," he wrote on Facebook on Thursday.

According to him, "the fire came again from Donetsk region - from the village of Rubtsi it spread to the Borovske forestry. A riding fire engulfed the Chervonooskolsky landscape Park, and then began to approach the village of Pisky-Radkivski. It was in this area, on the territory of one of the charitable foundations, that people died, two more were burned," Bolvynov added.

About 1,100 wooden houses burned down in and near the forest, and 60 people were evacuated.