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By Vladimir Radyuhin
A spokesman for the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University said 170 students from 34 countries were being treated for burns and broken limbs in hospital. The fire, which started in the early hours on Monday, gutted a five-storey dormitory where 280 students lived. It is the worst fire in the capital since 1976 when 42 persons died in a blaze in the Rossia Hotel. Information about the victims of the fire is sketchy, with authorities still trying to make a list of the dead and injured students. They said most of the students had arrived in Russia only days before the fire and many could not speak any Russian. According to information available to the Indian Embassy, nine Indian students were staying in the dormitory. Four of them are known to be in various Moscow hospitals, but the fate of three others is not known, including a girl Lakshmi from South India. Out of 39 students who died, only four have been identified so far, the Acting Rector of the Friendship University, Dmitry Bilibin, told the Itar-Tass news agency. There are no Indians among them. The Indian Embassy would not give the names of the injured Indian students citing lack of information.
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