Ministry of Emergency Situations: the death toll in an emergency with gas in Nizhnevartovsk has increased to seven

“At 5:54 (3:54 Moscow time -

) a message was received, preliminary, they found a human body.

Representatives of the investigation went to the place to carry out investigative actions, ”RIA Novosti quotes a representative of the department.

It is noted that the removal of debris will continue.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Alexander Kurenkov, said that the cause of the explosion in a house in Nizhnevartovsk was the depressurization of a gas cylinder.

Investigators opened a criminal case on the fact of a partial collapse of a residential building in Nizhnevartovsk.