The number of people who died in the collapse of the entrance to a residential building as a result of a gas explosion in a house in Nizhny Tagil has increased to 20, including nine children. This was reported by the Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk region. Telegram channel.
According to the ministry, 11 patients, including five children, were taken to hospitals in Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil.
At the same time, five people refused hospitalization; all received medical care on an outpatient basis.
Two entrances of a five-storey residential building on Sibirskaya (81) in the Vagonka microdistrict of Nizhny Tagil collapsed on August 1. explosion gas-air mixture. A state of emergency was declared in the Dzerzhinsky district, where the house is located. Investigative Committee of Russia excited a criminal case regarding the performance of work or provision of services that does not meet the requirements.
Previous explosion dead At a gas production enterprise in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.