TALLINN — Four homeless people died in a burning two-story wooden house Tuesday evening.

Tallinn’s emergency call center was notified about the fire at 8:24 p.m Tuesday and four fire trucks were sent to put out the fire in an old abandoned wooden building in the Kalamaja neighborhood.

Once the fire department arrived, the second floor was already inundated with flames and the fire had spread to the first floor and to the attic. Rescue workers found four corpses in the burning building, all victims of the fire.

The fire department managed to put an end to the blaze by 9.41. p.m. Police are now investigating what caused the fire and are not releasing anymore details on the situation.

Peeter Randoja, press spokesman of Northern-Estonian Rescue Board said that the victims were a woman and three men. All were middle-aged and they did not have any documents. According to Randoja the fire expanded rapidly due the bad conditions of the building.

“The house was not fit for living and there were missing doors, therefore the fire evolved very fast,“ Randoja told Baltic Reports. Already seven deaths have been caused by the fire within six days of new year, six of those in Tallinn.