Moscow, December 25 (Interfax-AVN) - A fire that broke out in Star City, an enclosed community housing a Russian space research and cosmonaut training center outside Moscow, injured eight people on Saturday morning, a spokesman for the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center told Interfax.
Five people suffered fume poisoning, and their condition is not serious, the spokesman said. Three others sustained bone fractures after jumping out of windows to escape the fire.
"Nobody was killed. Those who suffered from toxic fumes, burns and other injuries, have been taken to local medical institutions," he said.
"Fire teams arrived at the site only two hours after the fire broke out," the spokesman said.
Star City facilities earlier belonged to the Russian Defense Ministry and were handed over to the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in summer 2009. Therefore, the Defense Ministry told Interfax that an investigation into the fire was not within its purview and that Roscosmos and other agencies would probe it.
