“At 22:44 Moscow time on March 29, a message was received about cotton (preliminary gas-air mixture) in a nine-storey one-entrance brick apartment building on Lenin Street in the city of Zelenodolsk.
There was no open burning, ”he said.
According to him, an evacuation is underway, a woman was rescued from the rubble.
She was transferred to a medical facility.
According to the updated information, there are 50 apartments in the house.
“There was a collapse of six apartments on the seventh floor and one apartment on the eighth floor.
A dead man was found at 11:27 pm, ”the Emergencies Ministry said.
In total, 59 people and 20 pieces of equipment are involved in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident, from the EMERCOM of Russia - 33 people and 10 pieces of equipment.
Earlier it was reported that a gas explosion occurred in a multi-storey building in Tatarstan