A fire killed 24 people in a drug rehabilitation center in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, its General Prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
Eldar Sultanov, spokesman for the office, said 31 people had been rescued during the incident.
The fire had probably been caused by a problem in the power network of the building containing the center, Reuters reported.
"At 06:10 am a fire happened at the Republican Narcological Centre in Baku," the General Prosecutor's Office, the health, interior and emergencies ministries said in a joint statement.
"The bodies of 24 people have been found," the statement added.
The office of the Azerbaijani president said he had arrived at the scene to oversee the rescue effort.
In May 2015, 15 people – including five minors -- were killed by a fire in a multi-storey building in Baku, according to AFP. In October 1995, 289 people died in a metro fire in Baku, in the world's deadliest subway disaster that was caused by outdated Soviet equipment.
