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At least nine people died on Monday due to a ruptured oxygen tube at a hospital in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz. The death toll was confirmed by the health minister in charge of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Soslán Tebiev, reports the Russian news agency Sputnik, according to which the victims were patients whose medical situation was very serious.
According to the first findings on the incident, a total of 71 patients were in the intensive care unit of the center when there was a loss of oxygen from a tube placed in an underground tank.