On the night of Saturday, November 7, a fire broke out in Košice, killing a woman. Rescue workers found her body after extinguishing the fire in one of the buildings in the Nad jazerom suburban area.
Emergency services received a report of a fire on Textilná Street around 3 a.m. Firefighters, police, and medical personnel immediately responded to the scene. Police cordoned off the area and evacuated people from neighboring cottages. Firefighting efforts were complicated by a propane-butane cylinder inside the building—rescuers had to remove it and cool it down to prevent an explosion. The fire also damaged a car parked nearby.
Once the fire was extinguished, rescue workers found the body of a woman showing no signs of life inside the burned-out building. A doctor who arrived at the scene preliminarily ruled out a violent death and ordered an autopsy.
The police have opened a criminal investigation under the charge of negligent homicide (usmrtenie). An expert is determining the exact cause of the fire. The investigation into the case is ongoing, and KOMPAS reminds readers of the important emergency service phone numbers in Slovakia.
