At least nine people were killed as a result of a building exploding in the village Tymovskoye in Russia’s Sakhalin, the regional governor Valery Limarenko says.
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Four victims were children. The search for one more resident of the building is ongoing. In total, 33 people lived in the building.
At first, the governor said that it was a gas explosion, but later on, he wrote that the building was not gasified. “The cause of the explosion is being looked into,” he reports.
The local administration names “improper storage and use of gas cylinders” as preliminary cause.
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Medics, emergency workers, and volunteers are on the site; according to latest reports, there are 59 people and 13 units of equipment at the scene.
