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Original Post Date: 2009-03-05 Time: 10:00:08 Posted By: Jan
Vladivostok, Russia – Seven people were killed and six others injured Thursday when a gas explosion ripped through a building in a remote village in the Russian Far East, officials said.
“Unfortunately, six could not be saved,” a spokesperson for the local branch of the emergency ministry, Yana Ivanova, told AFP. She added later Thursday that one more person had been found under the rubble.
Six survivors were currently in the hospital and one was in a critical condition, Ivanova added.
The gas explosion hit the two-storey residential building in the village of Vozdvizhenka in the Primorsky region on the Russian Pacific coast at around 01:00 am local time Thursday (1500 GMT).
The four apartments have been fully destroyed but the residents have already returned to their homes after being evacuated earlier, officials said.
Authorities said the gas explosion had most likely caused the accident.
Minutes before the blast residents had been seen bringing a gas cylinder in the building, Ivanova told AFP. Locals frequently use gas tanks for heating to save on electricity.
President Dmitry Medvedev’s envoy in the Far East, Oleg Safonov, called on the local authorities to render the survivors all the necessary support.
Separately, a natural gas leak was believed to have killed a local elections committee chief and his two family members in the Siberian city of Barnaul, officials said Thursday.
The bodies of Sergei Sytykh, chief of the elections committee in the Altai region, his wife and mother-in-law were found at their home Thursday morning, police spokesperson Regina Shorokhova told AFP from Barnaul, adding the gas leak had most likely caused the deaths.
“The house is equipped with a gas heating system which has had failures before,” said a spokeswoman for a local investigative committee, adding a criminal case has been opened into the deaths of the family. “The causes of death are being established,” she said.
Accidents like gas explosions, leaks and fires are frequent in the country and highlight lax enforcement of safety regulations, negligence and inadequate Soviet-era infrastructure. – AFP
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20090305115607342C696397