Death toll rises to 37 in Russian apartment block explosion: ministry
Six children were among the dead, the emergency situations ministry said in a statement.
MOSCOW (AFP) - The number of confirmed dead from a New Year’s Eve gas explosion that caused a Russian apartment block to partially collapse has risen to 37, officials said Thursday, with four people still missing.
Six children were among the dead, the emergency situations ministry said in a statement, while six people had been rescued from the rubble of the building in the Ural mountains city of Magnitogorsk.
