On the night of Saturday, September 11, in the village of Solidarity, Yeletsky District, Lipetsk Region, a two-story residential building partially collapsed.
According to the preliminary version, the explosion of household gas became the cause of the emergency.
Three people died, including an 11-year-old girl, and another six were injured of varying severity.
Five victims were hospitalized in the Semashko city hospital in Yelets.
According to doctors, nothing threatens their lives.
Another person refused hospitalization.
“The signal about household gas cotton came at 00:52.
Presumably, at the time of the collapse, there were 25 people in the house, - the press service of the government of the Lipetsk region reported.
- The two-storey house where the collapse occurred was built in 1970.
There are 16 apartments in the building. "
It is noted that the evacuees were accommodated on the basis of the Yelets District Tourism Center.
According to the authorities, the residential building in which the emergency occurred was not damaged.
The regional governor Igor Artamonov, who arrived at the site of the collapse, said that the damaged house would be demolished, and the residents would receive new housing at the expense of the regional budget.
He also spoke about compensation for victims of the emergency: “A decision has been made to allocate funds from the reserve fund.
What compensation will be: 1.5 million rubles in case of complete destruction of housing and the presence of victims in the family, 1 million rubles in case of partial damage to housing and the presence of deaths in the family, 500 thousand rubles in case of partial damage to housing. "
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At about 15:00 Moscow time, the press service of the regional Emergencies Ministry told TASS that rescue operations had been completed at the scene.
The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Lipetsk region reported that they would provide assistance in the restoration of documents to the residents of the house.
"Police officers will help the residents of the house destroyed by the gas explosion to quickly restore the lost and damaged documents," RIA Novosti quotes the words of a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
On the fact of the incident, the Yelets interdistrict investigation department of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Lipetsk region opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Art.
238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements").
“Investigators and criminologists of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Lipetsk Region are working at the scene.
An inspection of the scene is carried out with the use of forensic technology and the participation of specialists, all the circumstances are established, the necessary technical documentation is seized.
Search work continues at the site of the rubble, ”the ministry said in a statement.
It is noted that the case was transferred to the apparatus of the First Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee in the Lipetsk Region.
Analysis of debris at the site of a gas explosion in a residential building in Yelets
The regional prosecutor's office took control of the investigation.
On the fact of the state of emergency, a check was organized: "In the event of violations by authorized officials and bodies, measures of the prosecutor's response will be taken to bring them to the responsibility established by law."
According to the prosecutor of the Yeletsk region, Stanislav Zhivalov, according to preliminary data, the cause of the explosion was a malfunction of the gas equipment.
In turn, the press service of Gazprom Gazoraspredeleniye Lipetsk indicated that no violations were found during previous inspections in the house: “Contracts for the maintenance of in-house gas equipment were concluded, maintenance was carried out, no violations were recorded”.
Explosion in Noginsk
This is the second in a week a significant emergency related to the detonation of a gas-air mixture in Russian regions.
On the morning of September 8, a wall and interfloor ceilings on several floors collapsed in a nine-story residential building in Noginsk.
17 apartments were completely destroyed.
During the parsing of the rubble, rescuers found the bodies of seven victims, including two children.
22 people were injured, including four children.
After the tragedy, the head of the Bogorodsky urban district, Igor Sukhin, announced a three-day mourning in the municipality.
In turn, the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, instructed to provide the residents of the house with all the necessary assistance.
On the fact of the state of emergency, the investigative bodies of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Moscow Region opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art.
238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons by negligence).
The progress of the investigation, on behalf of the head of the TFR, Alexander Bastrykin, was put under control in the central office of the department.