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Death toll rises to 37 in Russian apartment block blast
MOSCOW, Jan 3, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The number of confirmed dead from a New
Year’s Eve gas explosion that caused a Russian apartment block to partially
collapse has risen to 37, officials said Thursday, with four people still
missing.
Six children were among the dead, the emergency situations ministry said in
a statement, while six people had been rescued from the rubble of the
building in the Ural mountains city of Magnitogorsk.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1305 hrs