Two Bulgarian citizens died in a fire that engulfed a night club in Moscow late on Saturday night, Darik News reported, citing RIA Novisti.

One of them is a 40-year-old man from Plovdiv, the other is a 62-year-old man, also from Plovdiv. Both were in Moscow to visit their friend who works in the Centre for production of Bulgaria in the Russian Federation. The younger victim died on spot from asphyxia.

Their bodies are now in the patho-anatomy ward in a Moscow hospital. They were identified by their friend. Their relatives have been already informed.

There had been other Buglarians in the same place, but non of them was injured in the fire, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Dimitar Tsanchev informed.

Another ten people have died in the fire; four have been transported to hospital with respiratory poisoning. A total of 150 other people were immediately evacuated from the burning club.

The tragedy occurred in the premises of the Lenkom Theatre where Club market 911 is situated.

Experts from the Moscow office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations have already started an investigation to find out what caused the fire. Initial data shows it has started somewhere around the bar and it immediately filled the whole club with smoke, which immediately killed people who were closest to the bar.

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