The health department of the Tyumen region reported that "an ambulance call arrived at 20:11 (18:11 Moscow time), the brigade arrived at the scene at 20:19 (18:19 Moscow time)."

The department said that "on the spot, assistance was provided to one victim about a superficial cut."

"One victim with a thermal burn is delivered to the Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1," the message says.

The press service of the regional governor said that a message was received about a gas explosion without subsequent combustion in an apartment on the second floor of a five-story residential building on 50 years of the VLKSM street in Tyumen.

The press service said that "a balcony and two adjacent (balconies) were destroyed."

“Two apartments are partially damaged.

75 people were evacuated.

Six units of equipment, 14 people work from the Ministry of Emergency Situations on the spot, ”the message says.

In late August, it was reported that four people were injured in an explosion and the ensuing fire in a residential building on Kubinka Street in Moscow.