According to information provided by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Osh region, the signal about the fire was received at the duty officer's desk around 02:00. The first firefighting team from the Uzgen district was dispatched to the scene, and at 02:24, an additional team arrived to reinforce the operation. A total of two units of equipment participated in extinguishing the fire.
The fire was completely extinguished by 03:50. Unfortunately, among the victims were children born in 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2023. The youngest of them was not even three years old.
In the morning of March 5, the akim of the Uzgen district, Kanybek Abasov, and the head of the Karool rural council, Ruslan Alaychiev, arrived at the scene of the tragedy. According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire was a short circuit in the electrical wiring.
Ruslan Alaychiev stated in an interview with Turmush that at the time of the fire, the children were under the care of their grandmother. “The grandmother was sleeping in one room, while the children were in another. The fire started sometime between 2 and 3 in the morning. Three of the deceased were siblings, their parents are working abroad and have already left the country. The fourth child was their cousin; his mother worked in Mailuu-Suu,” Alaychiev clarified.
The children's funeral is scheduled for the afternoon.
