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Rescuers are still searching for people trapped under the rubble of a city apartment block that partly collapsed in a suspected gas blast killing at least three, Russian authorities said.
Key points:
- Russia’s emergency ministry says it is likely a gas leak is to blame for the explosion
- Four people have been recovered alive from the nine-storey building
- There have been several similar incidents in Russia due to aging infrastructure and poor safety regulations
Russia’s emergencies ministry said four people had been recovered alive from the nine-storey building in Magnitogorsk, an industrial city 1,700 km east of Moscow in the southern Urals.
News agency TASS said 79 people were unaccounted for, quoting Chelyabinsk regional Deputy Governor Oleg Klimov.
The emergencies ministry said the blast, probably caused by a gas leak, damaged 48 apartments.
The explosion ripped through the building at around 6:00am when many residents were asleep.
Monday is a public holiday in Russia.
There have been several similar incidents in Russia in recent years due to ageing infrastructure and poor safety regulations surrounding gas usage.
In 2015, at least five people were killed when a gas explosion damaged an apartment building in the southern Russian city of Volgograd.
Reuters
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