The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region informs about it.

“Five people were injured in total.

One man was taken to the emergency room, [one] woman was hospitalized, and the woman, taken out from under the rubble, was taken to PIMU with burns, ”TASS was quoted as saying.

It is noted that two more people asked for help on their own.

The Emergencies Ministry also said that 20 families were accommodated in a local hotel.

Earlier it was reported that a gas explosion occurred on the basement of a residential building in Nizhny Novgorod.

The UK opened a criminal case.