In a huge fire today, it swept a shopping centre, massive one in the Russian city of Kemerova. 69 are said to be missing, including dozens of children. This used to be getting worse as the hours are going on, although the fire looks like it's under control. The number of dead and the actual picture of what's happened there has got progressively worse. It has the fire going on, obviously late morning, afternoon in the city of Kemerova in southern Russia. It was a shopping centre for floors tall and the fire went on again on one of those top floors there in what we understand as a children's play area. A wall, a trampoline, a flammable material. The cause is too early to speculate, but the deputy governor has said one possible theory was careless use of a lighter or some sort of accident or the lighter. The start was of course here in Russia smoking, that kind of thing is banned in all public places, but you never know maybe kids have got a hold of something like that. But we don't know it's early days, isn't it? In early days, and obviously fire fighters have isolated the fire, they've got things under control. What they are doing now is obviously taking bath and a recovery operation there. They've cleared the first two floors, they're working the third one. They couldn't get to the fourth floor for quite a while, we understand because of the sheer high temperature there just to give you a picture of what was going on. We've played a picture of this sort of building, it's one of those kind of cinema bowling alley shopping complexes, a big place. Big shopping centre, sun they would have been filled with families of many children inside and this is perhaps one of the most tragic things. We saw there the casualty figures 69 have been declared missing so far, we understand from latest information as many as 40 of them, more than half our children aged 2 to 13 very tragically. We understand that fire escapes may not have been working properly, the alarm systems may not have been working. The woman there saying that the cinemas effectively became death traps people, were not giving any help to go to exit the area, a lot of panic inside. What can just imagine the sort of sheer terror that would have been going through as people mine, so 69 as we say missing, hopefully as many as possible of those of course will be accounted for safe and sound. It's going to be a long night certainly those for the relatives and friends of those currently unaccounted for on the top floors. .