"The chairman of the Investigative Committee instructed the leadership of the territorial investigation department to report on the investigative actions carried out in the criminal case of a gas explosion that occurred in the city of Zelenodolsk in the Republic of Tatarstan," the press service of the department reported.

Bastrykin instructed to establish all the circumstances and reasons for the incident.

Late in the evening of March 29, in Zelenodolsk of the Republic of Tatarstan, a household gas explosion occurred in a nine-story residential building, as a result of which seven apartments collapsed.

Two people died, seven more were injured.

On the fact of the state of emergency, three criminal cases were initiated - on causing death by negligence, causing grievous bodily harm by negligence, and also on negligence.