It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Dagestan.

“At 02.35 ... a report was received that in the city of Khasavyurt, along Datuev Street, 35, on the first floor of a six-story apartment building, an air-gas mixture popped with subsequent ignition,” the report says.

According to preliminary information, there are victims.

Earlier in Cheboksary, 21 people were injured in a fire in a residential building.