November 27 declared as a day of mourning in Georgia
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In recognition of the dozens of people who died during the fire at Leogrand Hotel in Georgia's seaside town of Batumi last night, November 27 has been declared as a day of mourning.
Georgia's Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili announced the government is mourning the tragedy alongside other citizens.
The national flags on every state building across the country will go down on Monday for those who died during the tragic accident.
Eleven people died and 21 injured during yesterday’s fire in Batumi. Ten of them were Georgian citizens and one – Iranian, the Interior Ministry said.
Dozens of fire-fighting brigades and over 100 fire-fighters have been mobilised in front of Leogrand Hotel where, as eyewitnesses said, a fire broke out in the spa centre. Photo from www.infobatumi.ge
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım sent a letter of condolence to Georgian Prime Minister Kvirikashvili.
Sharing Georgian people’s sorrow, Yıldırım, on behalf of the Government of Turkey, wished rapid recovery and welfare to those injured.
A fire broke out at Leogrand Hotel in Batumi last evening.
Investigation of the case has been launched under article #243 of the Criminal Code that considers violation of fire-safety standards.
Nikoloz Siradze Head of Interior Ministry’s emergency service said the evacuation stairs of the hotel did not satisfy the safety norms.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili landed in Batumi, Adjara from Brussels yesterday as a fire broke out in Leogrand Hotel killing 11 people.
Eleven people have died and 21 injured during yesterday’s fire in Georgia’s seaside town of Batumi. Ten of them were Georgian citizens and one – Iranian, the Interior Ministry says. A fire broke out at Leogrand Hotel in Batumi last evening. Fire-fighters from the western regions of Guria, Samegrelo and Imereti helped extinguish the fire.
The Georgian national flags are flying at half-mast today at all government buildings across the country in remembrance of nearly a dozen people who died during the fire at Leogrand Hotel in Georgia's seaside town of Batumi on November 24.
An explosion at a flats in Georgia’s Black seaside town of Batumi has injured six people including two children. According to preliminary information, the explosion was caused by natural gas. However, the investigation is underway to reveal the exact cause of the explosion.
Two people may face detention for violating safety standards that caused a fire at the Leogrand Hotel in Batumi last November.
The Emergency Management Service of Georgia demands the suspension of the operations of the former Leogrand Hotel in the Black Sea town of Batumi which is now operating as Velmonde Hotel and Casino.
The Georgian Emergency Management Service says that the five-star hotel Welmond in Georgia’s coastal Batumi city must close at 6pm tomorrow, as the hotel failed to meet the safety standards after the deadly blaze last year which claimed 11 lives.
Two individuals have been charged for their responsibility in the Batumi Leogrand fire, which resulted in the deaths of 11 people on 24 November 2017.