Seven people including five children died in a blaze caused by a playground dispute over an alleged 85p theft.
The victims were burned alive in the horrific arson attack on a part-timber apartment block in Rostov Veliky town in Russia .
Alexander Komarov, 37, used a lighter to start the late night fire after his son had claimed a boy who lived in this block had stolen 70 roubles - just 85p - from him, local law enforcement officers claim.
Reports say he admitted being "drunk" and "went there" after the situation escalated.
The boy, who strongly denied the theft, and his family jumped out of ground floor windows to escape the inferno.
But two other families living in upstairs flats were trapped, say reports.
Anastasia Kurkina, 23, and her three children Milana, six, Alina, three, and Evgenia, 18 months, all perished.
A mother who lived in another upstairs flat Anastasia Lendinyova was saved but her two children Polina, four, and Sergey, two, died.
Kurkina had told her husband Igor Vanyushev, 35, to jump and she would throw the children from him to catch.
“But she lost consciousness and she and her daughters suffocated,” said her step-daughter Olga.
Local man Oleg Kovalev fought through the blaze and grabbed two of the girls who were still alive, but they died soon afterwards from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Local resident Alexandra Vasilyeva said: "He cried because he pulled the girls too late, so there was no time to save them.
“He was so upset, he threw a wild tantrum.
“He pulled out the girls, and they were still breathing, thinking that they could be saved, but when the ambulance arrived, they said that it was too late.
“They say the girls were dying in his arms."
Vanyushev’s uncle Vladimir Urbakh also died in the fire.
A total of 25 people including three children, were evacuated.
State prosecutor’s official Dmitry Dyachkov said Komarov had confessed to an “extremely dangerous crime” and showed “an indifferent attitude to human life”.
He is seen on video confessing to arson, saying: "I took the lighter... and went there. I was drunk."
He is detained and faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
