Natural gas blast kills at least 2 in Russia

By SPA

Moscow : A natural gas blast ripped through an apartment building in Russia’s Tatarstan region early Wednesday, killing at least two people and leaving others feared trapped beneath the rubble, officials said.

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The explosion brought down an entire section of the three-storey brick building in Tatarstan’s capital, Kazan.

Russian television showed footage of the ruins _ a jagged remnant of a wall and a pile of rubble with smoke or steam wafting into the frigid air.

One woman was found dead in the rubble and one of two people hospitalized, also a woman, died several hours later, Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said. He said about 11 people could be trapped beneath the rubble.