Two students were evacuated through the window of a lecture room situated on the third floor of a block of the State University of Moldova after the story was filled with smoke following a fire. A firefighting vehicle intervened with an extendable ladder.

Press officer of the Civil Protection and Emergencies Service Diana Turcan said the fire started in a lumber room located on the same story, IPN reports.

As many as 200 students went out of the building through the stairs, until the firefighters arrived. The fire was localized in ten minutes. An investigation is under way.