She wrote about this in her Telegram.
“Rescuers, emergency services have completed search and rescue operations in Nizhnevartovsk.
Unfortunately, the residents of the house, who were listed as missing, died,” the governor said.
She added that the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Autonomous District has reliably established the death of eight people, including four children.
“Condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
We mourn.
People, take care of yourself, please,” said Komarova.
December 7 was declared a day of mourning in the city.
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.