Overview

• The blasts struck a filling station in the village of Sulevkent in Dagestan’s Khasavyurt district, following other deadly station explosions in the region in 2024 and 2023.
• Four people suffered severe burns, were taken to hospital, and later died, authorities and local media reported.
• Video from the scene shows an initial fireball followed by a larger explosion that sent debris flying and forced residents to flee.
• Officials say the first blast likely resulted from depressurisation of a gas cylinder during refuelling, with subsequent cylinders and pumps igniting.
• Emergency services extinguished multiple fires, the station and nearby vendors were destroyed, and regional prosecutors opened a criminal investigation.