The death toll in a household gas explosion in the Russian city of Kazan has risen to seven, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Wednesday.
Earlier reports said rescuers pulled the bodies of two women and a man from the rubble. The blast also injured several others.
The explosion ripped through a three-story apartment building at 0:32 local time (2132 GMT Tuesday) in Kazan, the press service of the Tatarstan emergencies ministry said.
The blast, caused by a household gas leak, triggered a fire that took two and a half hours to extinguish.
There were 39 people living in the destroyed block and some of them are still trapped under the rubble. Rescuers with sniffer dogs are working at the site, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Residents of the destroyed apartment building were evacuated to a nearby school. Repair work has started on adjacent apartment buildings and a kindergarten, where windows were shattered by the explosion.
Source:Xinhua
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