Eyewitness Boris Bespalov spoke about a gas explosion that occurred on Friday, July 2, in a residential building in Nizhny Novgorod.
As the young man noted, a powerful cotton woke him up and went to see what had happened.
“The girl was there nearby, she called the Ministry of Emergency Situations. At that time, they knew that there was one injured man there. He was rolled over, officers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations came and pulled him out, ”said a witness to the incident in an interview with REN TV.
Domestic gas explosion occurred in a three-story residential building in Nizhny Novgorod on Svetloyarskaya street. As a result, three people were injured, they were taken to the hospital. There are no children among the injured. All three hospitalized are men. Their condition is assessed as serious.
The regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Izvestia that the cotton occurred on the first floor, in the 28th apartment. 72 people are registered in the house, 61 people have been evacuated to date, including nine children. A temporary accommodation point has been deployed at MBOU Secondary School No. 76 at the address: Sormovskiy district, st. Mokrousova, 24.
Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations work on the spot.