The FSB Border Service building caught fire in Rostov-on-Don, black smoke rises. Video.

On the afternoon of March 16, a massive fire broke out in the building of the Border Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Eyewitnesses claim that they heard an explosion before the fire.

Emergency workers arrived at the scene and tried to extinguish the fire. Russian Telegram channels reported on it (to see photos and videos, scroll to the bottom of the page).

Images from the scene show that the fire started inside the building. Officials of the aggressor country have not yet commented on what happened and are not talking about possible causes of the fire.

Propaganda media write that the preliminary cause of the fire was an explosion in the warehouse of the FSB Border Service.

According to eyewitnesses, ammunition allegedly detonated in the warehouse. The territory of the building is cordoned off. Emergency Ministry units are working at the scene. The press service of the FSB Border Service has not yet commented on the situation.

Police have encircled the area around the scene and are not allowing traffic. Law enforcement sources also told the Kremlin media that two people were injured in the explosion. At the same time, local residents say that they heard "not even a pop, but an explosion".

Later, it became known that rescuers found the body of one victim at the scene of the fire at the FSB Border Service building in Rostov-on-Don.

"The explosion was very loud, not a pop. We heard one explosion, our friends who live closer to the fire site say there were two, but we clearly heard only one," eyewitnesses say.

To recap, an oil pipeline caught fire on the territory of an oil refinery in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation. The cause of the fire was called a violation of the technological process.

Earlier, it was reported that a fire broke out at the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant in Russia. The unit transformer of the power unit No.3 caught fire. The incident killed one person and injured another.

Another large-scale fire broke out at a coke and gas plant near Moscow. A massive fire occurred in one of the shops after the explosion.

It was also reported that a few days earlier, explosions were heard on the territory of a flight school in Krasnodar, and a fire broke out. Officials categorically denied the fact of the fire at the flight school, while local residents posted dozens of photos with a huge column of smoke over the school's territory.

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