Executive at Fire-Ravaged Russian Shopping Mall Arrested

Executive at Fire-Ravaged Russian Shopping Mall Arrested
People visit a makeshift memorial on the day of national mourning for the victims of a shopping mall fire in Kemerovo on an embankment of the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, March 28, 2018. Reuters/Ilya Naymushin/File Photo
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KEMEROVO, Russia---Russian police on Friday arrested an executive with the firm that owns a shopping mall where a fire last weekend killed 64 people, most of them children.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, the state body that investigates major crimes, said in a statement the executive, Yulia Bogdanova, had failed to address shortcomings in fire safety at the shopping mall.