“The official version of what happened is the explosion of domestic gas, careless use, damage to gas equipment systems. The focus of initiation is the apartment on the first floor, ”Stanislav Zakharov, head of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, quotes TASS.

However, he added that the final version will be announced after all examinations.

Earlier it became known that the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, handed over to the central office of the department an investigation into the criminal case on the explosion of domestic gas near Belgorod, in which one person died.

The accident occurred on December 3 in the village of Yakovlevo. As a result, four floors of a residential building were destroyed.