The department of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision noted that after the completion of the rescue operations, the destruction of a gas pipeline running 50 meters from the house was discovered.
“A commission has been formed, which has begun to investigate the technical causes of the accident.
The version of gas fire after depressurization of the gas pipeline is being checked as a priority, ”the ministry said in a press release.
Earlier in Nizhny Novgorod, they completed the analysis of debris at the site of a gas explosion in a house.
On the morning of February 26, a gas explosion occurred on the basement floor of a 12-storey residential building in Nizhny Novgorod.
As a result of the emergency, five people were injured.
A criminal case has been initiated into the incident.
The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin named a gas leak as a preliminary cause of the explosion in an extension to a house in Nizhny Novgorod.