Forest Fires Scorch Eastern Russia

Wed., May 15, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Forest fires fanned by high winds charred 95,000 acres in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and the Russian Far East, killing six people, officials said Tuesday.

Three adults and three children were killed in the southern Siberia region of Buryatiya on the Mongolian border when fires swept through 10,000 acres, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

Most of the fires were caused by careless burning of hay meadows.

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