At least one person died following a fire at the four floor Perseus shopping Center in the west of Moscow on Wednesday, the blaze began in a toys stockroom on the third floor.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations says that the man was an employee of the shopping Center. and he died in an ambulance on the way to hospital.

Thick black smoke rising from the blue mall building. According to multiple reports, the blaze began in a toys stockroom on the third floor, before spreading to the roof of the building. Three hundred people were evacuated.

It comes less than two weeks after a major fire at a shopping Center in Kemerovo, Siberia, which killed 64 people, most of them were children.