Moscow-Sana
One person was killed and 4 others injured in a gas pipe explosion that rocked an apartment building in the city of Orykhovo Zuevo, Moscow region today.
The website of Russia today quoted the Russian Emergency Ministry as saying that "the explosion occurred in an apartment on the third floor of the five-storey building, which resulted in the partial collapse of the building."
The ministry confirmed the start of search and rescue work, noting that information is being audited about the number of victims of the accident.
Thirty-seven people were killed in the collapse of an apartment building as a result of a gas explosion in the central Russian city of Magnitogorsk in January last year.