Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
Eleven people including 10 Uzbek workers died when a fire ripped through a one-storey wooden shack in a remote village in the Siberian region of Tomsk, officials said on Tuesday.
“The bodies of 11 people have been found,” Russia’s emergencies ministry said in a statement.
Citing preliminary information, regional authorities said that ten of the victims were citizens of Uzbekistan.
The fire broke out on the territory of a private sawmill in the Prichulymsky settlement and the wooden shack was used to house workers despite its substandard conditions, authorities said.
Investigators said they opened a criminal probe into negligent manslaughter.
Millions of migrant workers from Central Asia live in Russia, where they often perform menial jobs for low pay under lax safety conditions.
