Firefighter killed tackling blaze in St Petersburg

Smoke and flames rise from a building in St Petersburg, Russia (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

A major fire has engulfed a business centre in St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, killing a firefighter and injuring two others.

The blaze spread across all four of the building’s floors and was raging in an area of 10,000 square metres (more than 100,000 square feet), emergency officials said.