Mongol Messenger reports that a Swiss woman was killed in a fire on the morning of December 4 in the building of the German Missionary Aid Organization ‘Help International’ , located in the ger area of Bayanzurkh District. The deceased woman lived with over 10 homeless and vulnerable children in a 400sq.m two-storey wooden house. At about 7.10am on Monday morning the fire started on the west side of the building. It took fire fighters three hours to extinguish the fire. Two guards were still able to help all the children leave the house, but they were unable to locate and rescue the Swiss woman. The 28-year old woman called Isabel came to Mongolia 8 years ago and worked in the humanitar- ian sphere. According to the autopsy, she died of smoke inhalation. Experts are investigating the cause of the fire and her death.

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