This was stated by the deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations - the chief state inspector for fire supervision Anatoly Suprunovsky.
“The Ministry of Emergency Situations will initiate, through the prosecution authorities, unscheduled inspections of gas filling stations and gas filling points together with Rostekhnadzor,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to Suprunovsky, such checks can be carried out in the near future.
Earlier, investigators opened a criminal case on the fact of a partial collapse of a residential building in Nizhnevartovsk.
According to the latest information, six people died as a result of the incident.
According to the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Alexander Kurenkov, the cause of the explosion in a residential building in Nizhnevartovsk was the depressurization of a gas cylinder.