Gas blast in apt building in Moscow leaves 3 dead, 14 injured

MOSCOW. November 21.KAZINFORM. Three people died and fourteen others, including four children, were injured as a result of a household gas explosion in an apartment building in southeastern Moscow, the spokesman for the Moscow division of the Emergency Situations Ministry, Yevgeny Bobylev, told Itar-Tass; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

"The explosion and fire that followed killed three. Fourteen others were hurt or otherwise affected, including four children, who inhaled poisonous fumes," he said.

The firefighters rescued 20 residents," Bobylev said; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.