Two people jumped to their death from the top floors of a burning eight-storey former Russian electronics research institute in Moscow on Monday.
At least six other people have died in the fire as people became trapped on the top floors and were unable to escape, the state-run TASS news agency reported.
One man was shown jumping from the upper floor of the building by the Baza Telegram channel. Another, with serious burns, fell from the upper floors, footage published by Shot Telegram channel showed. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
In other developments, top North Korean military officials criticised the United States on Monday for its expanding military assistance to Ukraine and warned of a “new world war”.
Just days after Russian president Vladimir Putin’s visit to Pyongyang, Pak Jong Chon, one of North Korea‘s top military officials, said Moscow had the “right to opt for any kind of retaliatory strike” if Washington kept pushing Ukraine to a “proxy war” against Russia.
It could provoke a stronger response from Moscow, and a “new world war”, Pak said, according to KCNA.
