18 Hospitalized After Explosion at Syktyvkar Police Training Center, 4 Critical

Overview

• Authorities report 18 people were taken to hospitals following an explosion and fire at the Interior Ministry’s training center in Syktyvkar.
• Four patients are in extremely critical condition, five are in serious condition, and three are in moderate condition, according to Russia’s Health Ministry.
• Regional facilities are treating seven patients at the Komi Republican Clinical Hospital and five at the Ezhva city hospital, with six more under observation at the Interior Ministry’s medical unit in stable condition.
• The Federal Center for Disaster Medicine is coordinating the response and holding telemedicine consultations with leading federal clinics.
• Officials say decisions on evacuating the most severe cases to federal medical centers will follow these consultations, and all patients are under round-the-clock monitoring.