“The doctors of the Surgut burn center have been fighting for the lives of the victims all these days.
Unfortunately, the 62-year-old patient could not be saved, ”the press service of the government said in a statement, cited by RIA Novosti.
Yugra Governor Natalya Komarova said earlier that search and rescue operations at the emergency site in Nizhnevartovsk had been completed.
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.