“A criminal case has been initiated on the basis of a crime under Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (provision of services that do not meet security requirements),” the message says.

Currently, an investigative and operational group is working at the scene of the incident, which carries out a detailed examination of the building, interrogates witnesses.

As it became known earlier, in the Nizhny Novgorod region in the village of Margusha there was a gas explosion in a residential building.

According to the latest information, three people were injured, one more may be under the rubble.

Due to the explosion, the structures of the house collapsed and a fire started over the entire area, which is about 1200 square meters.

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The Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin instructed to urgently provide assistance to residents of a house in the Dalnekonstantinovsky District, where a gas explosion occurred.