 At least one person was killed and hundreds of people were left homeless when a major fire swept through a village just east of Russia's Ural's mountains. Video footage released on April 26 showed flames raging across the horizon in golfing houses and trees, while smoke blocked out the sky in Sosva, about 1,400 kilometers east of Moscow. According to officials and media reports, a medical penal facility burned down in Sosva. Units have been evacuated, regional telegram channels reported. Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service set up an investigative board to look into the circumstances of the incident. A sawmill and asphalt and concrete producing factory have also been destroyed by the blaze. Authorities did not say what caused the fire, but investigators opened criminal cases for negligence and causing death by negligence.