“On January 2 this year, during the extinguishing of a fire that broke out in one of the garage boxes of the Voskhod cooperative in the city of Volzhsky, the bodies of the 59-year-old owner of the building and an unknown person were found.
On this fact, the investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Volgograd region organized a pre-investigation check, ”the statement says.
According to preliminary data, the cause of the emergency was the ignition of the gas-air mixture and the explosion of the gas cylinder located in the boxing room.
Currently, a set of measures is being taken to establish all the circumstances of the incident.
Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said that three children were killed in a fire in an apartment building in the Novgorod region.