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

According to the agency, in the morning of July 18, members of the same family who were injured by a gas explosion were urgently taken to Nalchik hospitals.

“Five people received burns: a man, two women, a boy born in 2013 and a girl born in 2015,” the ministry said.

Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that four people were injured in a gas explosion in Baksan’s houses, including two children.

The prosecutor's office organized a check on the fact of what happened.