The report said that the prosecutor’s office organized an emergency check.

“According to preliminary information, as a result of a gas explosion in the apartment on the fifth floor of a 5-storey apartment building, the interior partition was destroyed, the windows were smashed,” the department said.

In April, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, as a result of a gas explosion in a residential building, two people were killed. 

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case.