MOSCOW, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Five people, including two children, have been found dead in a private house fire in the city of Vyksa in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, the local emergency department said Tuesday.

Efforts to identify the victims are ongoing, and suppression operations were completed within an area of 80 square meters, according to the department.

Forensic medical examinations have been ordered to determine the causes of the deaths and an investigation has been ordered into the cause of the fire. ■