The explosion of an
air-gas mixture happened in an apartment on the sixth floor of a nine-story
panel apartment building.
MOSCOW, July 11.
/TASS/. Five people were injured in a gas explosion followed by a fire in a
residential building in Nizhny Novgorod, press service of the city’s government
administration told reporters on Saturday.
"Currently, five
people have been injured in a gas explosion, three of them were slightly
injured, doctors examined them on the spot, hospitalization was not required.
Two more people, a man and a woman, were taken to a hospital. Their condition does
not cause any concerns," the press service said.
Earlier, the Ministry
of Emergency Situation reported three injured. According to the Ministry, the
explosion of an air-gas mixture happened in an apartment on the sixth floor of
a nine-story panel apartment building. Inter-apartment partitions, floors
between the sixth and seventh floors were damaged.
Source: ITAR-TASS
11-07-2020