Eight dead, three of them children, in Siberia fire

Eight people, three of them children, died when a timber house in a Siberian village was engulfed by fire, investigators said.

The incident happened in Moltshanovo, about 200 kilometres from Tomsk, southwestern Siberia.

"Seven bodies have been found: three women, two men and two children. Another child died in hospital," Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.