As noted by Lyubimov, the families of the victims will be allocated 1 million rubles each.

“October 25 in the Ryazan region will be declared a day of mourning.

All entertainment events should be canceled; flags should be lowered on the buildings of the Central Institute of Public Health, administrations of cities, districts, villages.

Appropriate changes will have to be made to the regional television and radio broadcasting networks, ”the head of the region wrote on Vkontakte.

The Russian Ministry of Health previously confirmed the death of 16 people in a fire near Ryazan.

The last male surviving burned 80% of his body surface area also died.

According to Chupriyan, the explosion was the cause of the fire.