Updated On: 27 December, 2023 06:48 AM IST | Bucharest | Agencies
It wasn’t immediately clear if the additional two dead had been among those listed as missing.

A total of 26 people were staying at the guesthouse at the time of the blaze. Pic/AP
A massive fire at a guesthouse Tuesday morning in Romania left five people dead, including a child, authorities said. Emergency intervention teams were deployed to the blaze in the village of Tohani in Prahova county, where 26 people were staying at the guesthouse, according to the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations.
Before the emergency authorities confirmed the deaths of the fourth and fifth victims around noon, search and rescue teams were set up to find five missing persons. It wasn’t immediately clear if the additional two dead had been among those listed as missing.