The Ministry of Emergency Situations clarified the data on those killed as a result of explosions in a residential building in Volgograd

In Volgograd, one person who died as a result of two explosions in a nine-story residential building has been identified, reports . Interfax

“This is a resident of the apartment in which the explosion allegedly occurred, a man born in 1939,” said Natalia Kunitskaya, press secretary of the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations denied information about the discovery of a second victim under the rubble of a partially collapsed building. The press secretary of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Dmitry Ulanov, told the agency about this.

This morning, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Leonid Belyaev said that four people could be under the rubble. The previously voiced version about five residents remaining under the rubble was not confirmed: rescuers learned that the woman, whose fate remained unknown, was staying with relatives.

The day before, the operational headquarters reported that the bodies of five dead were found in the house, but at present this information has not been confirmed.

in a residential building On the morning of December 20, an explosion occurred . After it, a fire started, and then a second explosion occurred. According to preliminary data, a domestic gas explosion occurred in the house.