Five people were killed in a gas explosion in a residential building in the town of Efremov, Tula region.
This was reported to TASS by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
The incident took place in house number 2 on Khimikov Street.
As a result of the explosion, the first entrance collapsed.
42 people and 12 pieces of equipment are working at the emergency site.
“Rescuers have started clearing the rubble and carrying out search operations,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
After the collapse of the entrance, four people remain under the rubble, seven were rescued, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
Alexey Pavlov, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the region, on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel, announced the involvement of additional forces in the amount of 100 people.
“At this moment, we are carrying out emergency rescue operations.
12 units of equipment, 42 people are involved, additional forces and means follow to the scene - 20 units, 100 people, ”TASS quotes him as saying.
The prosecutor's office of the Tula region began an investigation into the collapse of part of the house in Efremov.
On behalf of the prosecutor of the region, an inspection of the implementation of legislation in the field of housing and communal services was organized in connection with the explosion of domestic gas.
The prosecutor is at the scene and coordinates the work of operational and rescue services.
“On behalf of the regional prosecutor, an inspection of the implementation of legislation in the housing and communal services sector was organized, related to the domestic gas explosion in an apartment building in the city of Efremov,” the regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
A criminal case has been initiated on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, the Investigative Committee of Russia reported.
The main cause of the explosion was a malfunction of gas equipment, TASS reports with reference to emergency services.
© Screenshot from the video of the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Tula region
The authorities of the Tula region will provide financial support to the families of the dead, injured and lost their homes.
“Now the main task is to provide all necessary assistance to the victims.
All residents of the house will be sent to temporary accommodation centers, where they will be provided with food, warm clothes, and medical and psychological assistance.
The families of the dead, injured and those who have lost their homes will be provided with financial support,” said the Governor of the region Alexei Dyumin.
Domestic gas explosions in residential buildings
In December, ten people were killed in a gas explosion in Nizhnevartovsk.
The destroyed house will be demolished, the tenants were resettled.
On December 9, a household gas explosion occurred on Pushkin Street in Ryazan.
As a result, the interior partition collapsed.
The second floor of the building was also partially damaged.
Two people were hurt.
On November 19, a gas explosion occurred in the urban-type settlement of Tymovskoye on Sakhalin.
As a result, nine people died, including four children.
According to preliminary data, a 20-liter gas cylinder exploded.
On October 26, in Izhevsk, a gas explosion occurred on the ninth floor.
A man was injured and later died in the hospital.
On June 1, gas exploded on the third floor of a residential building in Mytishchi near Moscow.
A 32-year-old local resident died.
On April 11, as a result of a gas explosion on the fourth floor of a five-story building in Stupino, near Moscow, a fire broke out.
Structures collapsed on the top floors.
Six people died, including three children.
On April 9, a 33-year-old man died in a gas explosion in an apartment building No. 7 on Komissara Gabishev Street in Kazan.
On February 3, in the evening, a gas explosion occurred in Nizhny Novgorod.
A man was injured, he was hospitalized with burns to 80% of his body.
He later died.
On January 13, in the village of Troitskoye on Sakhalin, due to a surge in gas pressure, a fire broke out in two houses.
A gas stove caught fire in one apartment.
As a result, a fire broke out on an area of 18 square meters.
m. In another apartment, a gas boiler exploded, after which a fire started on an area of 9 square meters.
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In January 2022, an explosion occurred in an apartment building in Penza.
Two people died.
The load-bearing structures and the roof of the house were not damaged.