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Hearts ache, anger surges after Siberian mall fire kills 64
KEMEROVO, Russia — Trapped inside a movie theatre at a burning shopping centre, 11-year-old Vika Pochankina made a panicked phone call to her aunt. “I’m suffocating. Tell Mama that I loved her,” the girl said.
Yevgenia Pochankina told her niece to cover her nose with her clothes to fend off the smoke.
“After a moment, she disconnected,” the aunt told The Associated Press.
The deaths of 64 people — including 41 children — in a Siberian shopping centre fire on March 25 have tormented their loved ones, bringing not only grief over those they lost but deep dismay about the state of life in Russia.