This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the regional government.

“Compensation to the family of the deceased is 1 million rubles,” the report said.

The official version of the explosion in a house near Belgorod was previously called - damage to gas equipment due to careless use.

On December 3, one person died in a gas explosion in the village of Yakovlevo near Belgorod. As a result of the accident, four floors of a residential building were destroyed.

The chairman of the IC of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, handed over to the central office of the department an investigation into the criminal case on the fact of this explosion.