Emergency services members work outside the shopping mall Vremena Goda (The Seasons) following the burst of a pipe carrying boiling hot water in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2023.
Emergency services members work outside the shopping mall Vremena Goda (The Seasons) following the burst of a pipe carrying boiling hot water in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Paramoshin
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Hot water pipe burst causes chaos at Moscow mall: 4 dead

Officials said four people were killed and ten injured on Saturday after a hot water pipe burst at a shopping mall in western Moscow.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Four people were killed and 10 injured on Saturday after a hot water pipe burst at a shopping mall in western Moscow, officials said.

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said some of those injured had suffered burns, and that emergency services were working on the scene.

Russian news agencies quoted investigators as saying that there had been no ammonia leak at the site as had been suspected for a time.

A member of the Russian emergencies ministry gives a woman medical treatment near the shopping mall Vremena Goda (The Seasons) following the burst of a pipe carrying boiling hot water in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2023.
A member of the Russian emergencies ministry gives a woman medical treatment near the shopping mall Vremena Goda (The Seasons) following the burst of a pipe carrying boiling hot water in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Paramoshin

Video footage showed flooding throughout the building and steam flowing out of a doorway.

The mall, known as Vremena Goda (The Seasons), opened in 2007 and houses over 150 stores.

Emergency services vehicles are parked outside the shopping mall Vremena Goda (The Seasons) following the burst of a pipe carrying boiling hot water in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2023.
Emergency services vehicles are parked outside the shopping mall Vremena Goda (The Seasons) following the burst of a pipe carrying boiling hot water in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Paramoshin

"We are providing medical assistance to all the victims," Sobyanin said.

(Reporting by Reuters; writing by Caleb Davis; editing by Mark Trevelyan, Jason Neely and Ron Popeski)

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