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Five people injured in house gas explosion in Russia's Far East

The gas explosion rocked the house in the early hours of Tuesday, damaging several apartments and destroying walls on the first and second floors

MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. /TASS/. Five people, including a toddler, were injured in the gas explosion at a five-storey residential house in the village of Priamursky in Russia's Far Eastern Jewish Autonomous Region, the local department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS on Tuesday. It was earlier reported that four people were injured in the fire.

The gas explosion rocked the house in the early hours of Tuesday, damaging several apartments and destroying walls on the first and second floors. The fire started by the explosion has been localized. Firefighters are clearing the debris. Around 120 people were evacuated from the building.

"According to latest reports, five people were injured, including a toddler. Nobody died in the incident, according to available information," a representative of the ministry's local department said adding that all those injured were hospitalized in Khabarovsk.