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Governor of Russia's Kemerovo region resigns after shopping mall fire

MOSCOW, April 1 - Aman Tuleyev, the governor of Russia's Kemerovo region that suffered a fire last month that killed more than 60 people at a shopping mall, said on Sunday he was resigning from his post.

In a video address posted on the regional administration's website, Tuleyev said his resignation was "the right, conscious and only true decision" following of the deadly incident.