Fire in the great Patriotic war Museum in Tbilisi, killed the hundred-year veteran

Fire in the Museum of the great Patriotic war killed a veteran who was 100 years old.

• RIA Novosti

“Arrived at the scene of the fire firefighters-rescuers found the body of a man, 1918 birth, who, presumably, because of the smoke and lost consciousness and suffocated”, — quotes Interfax the message of the Service for management of emergency situations of Georgia.

According to eyewitnesses, the deceased man was a veteran of world war II and often visited the Museum.

In the Georgian interior Ministry opened a criminal case.

Earlier it was reported that the fire occurred in a large flea market in the center of Tbilisi.