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Evacuation of the people from burning premises of the Odesa College of Economics, Law and the Hotel and Restaurant Business is over, liquidation of fire continues, 17-year-old female student died, Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Odesa region reported on Facebook.

“As of 3:00 p.m., 17-year-old female student died and 26 persons, including 7 firefighters, were injured as a result of fire. Evacuation works have been finished. Liquidation of fire continues,” the report says.

As previously reported, a female employee of an educational institution, born 1976, died from injuries in the hospital as a result of the fire broken at the education facility. Later on, media reported that a confusion occurred during the identification of the body, and this is 17-year-old female student died and the teacher is alive but in a grave condition. In total, two victims are in a grave condition.