KIEV, October 13 (RIA Novosti) - At least seven people are confirmed dead following a gas explosion that caused a section of a residential building to collapse in Dnepropetrovsk, south-central Ukraine, rescuers said on Saturday.
So far three people have been pulled out of the rubble alive, and a further 21 are injured, the head of the regional emergency services said.
The blast occurred in a nine-storey building in Ukraine's third-largest city.