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Putin Says Deadly Mall Fire In Central Russia Due To 'Criminal Negligence'

People lay flowers at a makeshift memorial in tribute to the victims of a fire at a shopping centre in Kemerovo, Russia on Tuesday. Russian authorities denounced what they called "flagrant violations" of safety norms that led to the deaths of 64 people, many of them children, in a fire at a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia. (AFP/Getty Images)
People lay flowers at a makeshift memorial in tribute to the victims of a fire at a shopping centre in Kemerovo, Russia on Tuesday. Russian authorities denounced what they called "flagrant violations" of safety norms that led to the deaths of 64 people, many of them children, in a fire at a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia. (AFP/Getty Images)

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