“On the fact of the incident in the clinical emergency hospital of Vladikavkaz, the investigating authorities ... opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Art.
238 of the Criminal Code of Russia (Performance of work or provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons by negligence), ”TASS quotes the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia.
Earlier it was reported that in Vladikavkaz, as a result of a pipe burst with oxygen, nine hospital patients died.
The interim head of North Ossetia said that an underground oxygen pipe had broken through in a Vladikavkaz hospital. Patients are connected to oxygen cylinders.