“A criminal case has been initiated under Article 109 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“ Causing death by negligence ”)," TASS says the report of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the republic.

According to the UK, the gas leak is considered as the main version of the explosion that happened.

Earlier it was reported about one person killed in a gas explosion in the city of Zelendolsk.

Three were hospitalized.

The head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the EMERCOM of Russia in the Republic of Tatarstan, Andrei Rodygin, told RT that seven apartments had collapsed as a result of the emergency.