Flags flew at half-staff across Russia on Wednesday as the country mourned 64 victims, many of them children, of a shopping mall fire in Siberia.
The blaze engulfed the four-story mall in the eastern city of Kemerovo on Sunday while it was packed with parents and children on the first weekend of the school recess.
Investigators identified a short circuit as a possible cause and said the emergency exits were locked shut, hampering any evacuation.
Some of the victims, many of them young children, died inside a locked movie theatre.
Wednesday was declared a day of mourning in Russia, and thousands of people have been bringing flowers and stuffed toys to makeshift memorials across the country.
The bodies of all 64 victims have been recovered and no one is unaccounted-for, Deputy Emergency Situations Minister Vladlen Aksyonov told the RIA Novosti news agency.
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