A natural gas blast hit on Monday one of the blocks of a 10-storey building in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, damaging 48 apartments. The fate of dozens of people remains unknown.
1 January 2019, 01:50 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Monday in Magnitogorsk at the operational headquarters of the Ministry of Emergencies created at the site of the incident and personally inspected the collapsed building.
The governor of Chelyabinsk region, Boris Dubrovsky, provided explanations to Putin regarding the building collapse.
The president also instructed to create a government commission for the elimination of the consequences of the gas explosion in the residential building in Magnitogorsk.
