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At least two people were killed and others injured, as a result of an explosion caused by a gas leak in a residential building in the Russian city of Novosibirsk.
And Tass news agency quoted the governor of Novosibirsk province, Andrei Travnikov, as saying: The explosion of a gas pipe caused a fire in a residential building at dawn today, killing two people and injuring eight people in the city of Novosibirsk.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry said: The five-storey building suffered a partial collapse, and that the search and rescue operation and rubble removal is still continuing at the site, involving about 200 emergency personnel and 60 pieces of machinery.
The authorities evacuated more than 50 people from the affected building.
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