The number of victims of a gas explosion in a residential apartment building in Noginsk has reached seven.

"They have not yet been retrieved," a TASS source in the emergency services told TASS.

At the same time, the number of victims, according to the press service of the Moscow Region Emergencies Ministry, has reached 20 people.

“The clearing up of the rubble continues.

Employees are on site.

As of 08:00, 20 people were injured, six of them were hospitalized, "- the text of the message is quoted by the" 360 "TV channel.

At night, employees of the Electrostal department of private security of the Main Directorate of Rosgvardia in the Moscow Region, together with the police, ensured the safety of people's property in apartments, said a spokesman for the press service of the Central District of Rosgvardia.

Earlier, the head of the Bogorodsky urban district, Igor Sukhin, promised the residents of the house affected by the gas explosion that looting would not be allowed at the site of the emergency.

In his Instagram, he also said that the authorities decided to announce a three-day mourning in the municipality.

“All together we made a balanced decision to declare a three-day mourning in the Bogorodsky district.

Accordingly, we will not hold the anniversary, September 11th.

We have no moral right to this.

I am sure the residents will treat this with understanding.

Thank you all for your sympathy, empathy, help and support, "he wrote, stressing that there was a" great grief. "

In turn, the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, instructed to provide all the necessary assistance, including material assistance, to the residents of an apartment building in Noginsk, where the household gas cotton occurred.

So, the families of the victims will be paid 1 million rubles each, persons who have received serious injuries will receive 500 thousand rubles, of medium severity - 300 thousand rubles, of light severity - 100 thousand rubles.

In addition, residents whose apartments were damaged will receive emergency social assistance in the amount of 30 thousand rubles per family member.

If the citizen lived alone, then the amount of payment will be 50 thousand rubles.

The vice-governor of the Moscow region, Evgeny Khromushin, in a conversation with reporters, pointed out that a domestic gas leak was considered as the main version of the state of emergency.

In this regard, the investigators interrogated the management and employees of the management company, as well as other organizations operating in the maintenance of the external gas pipeline, intra-apartment, as well as access communications, the press service of the Investigative Committee reported.

The investigating authorities of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Moscow Region opened a criminal case on the fact of “providing services that did not meet safety requirements, which inadvertently resulted in the death of two or more persons” (part 3 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The progress of the investigation was put under control in the central office of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

“The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructed the head of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region, A.Yu. Starikov.

to report on the initial investigative actions carried out in the criminal case on the fact of the provision of services that do not meet the security requirements in the city of Noginsk, ”the ministry said in a statement.

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Recall that an explosion of a gas-air mixture in a nine-story residential building on the street on June 28, 1906 in Noginsk occurred on the morning of September 8.

As a result of the explosion, the walls and interfloor ceilings collapsed on several floors.

17 apartments were completely destroyed.

173 residents were evacuated from the residential building.

As pointed out by the vice-governor of the Moscow region Yevgeny Khromushin, according to preliminary data, the residential building is subject to restoration.

The final conclusion will be made after examination by the "Struna" diagnostic complex.

“If“ Struna ”shows that in a day we have no deformations throughout the house, I emphasize, no, then we return the first entrance and begin to repair the second,” he said the day before.