Moscow: Two Indian students, who were seriously hurt in a major fire accident in a Russian University campus on Monday (November 24), have succumbed to burn injuries.

Of the seven injured Indian students, two have died of their burn injuries, the Indian Students Association in Moscow said today (November 27).

A major fire ripped through a five-storey dormitory of People's Friendship University in Moscow on Monday killing 40 students and injuring over 140.

The Association, which also held a protest demonstration in front of the Indian embassy against, what it alleged, the "indifferent attitude" adopted by the Indian diplomats towards the injured, said the wounded Indian students were in "grave condition" in hospitals.

The Indian embassy "has not shown any sympathy or care towards them," Ravi, an executive member of the Association, alleged.

Meanwhile, Vice Chancellor of People's Friendship University, Prof Bilibin, resigned today, accepting moral responsibility for the tragedy.

PTI