Overview

• Among the six victims was a child, and 16 people were wounded with several in critical condition.
• Four residents remain unaccounted for and authorities fear additional victims may still lie beneath unstable debris.
• Rescue teams have pulled at least one survivor from the rubble and continue scouring the collapsed section for others.
• The explosion’s pressure wave collapsed the stairwell between the seventh and tenth floors and shattered windows of an adjacent apartment block.
• Russia’s aging gas pipeline network has been blamed for frequent residential blasts, raising fresh concerns over infrastructure maintenance and safety.