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Monday, April 2, 2018

Russian governor resigns after shopping centre blaze

Kemerovo regional Governor Aman Tuleyev 


Aman Tuleyev, the longtime governor of Russia's Kemerovo region where a huge mall fire killed at least 64 people including 41 children last weekend, resigned on Sunday.

"I submitted my resignation letter to the Russian president," he said in a three-minute video address released by his office.

Tuleyev, who had been at the helm of the key coal-mining region since 1997, said he could no longer remain at his post with "such a heavy burden" and added that his resignation was "the only right choice".

At least 64 people - including 41 children - died when a huge fire ravaged a mall in the industrial city of Kemerovo in western Siberia last Sunday.

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