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DEATH TOLL IN HOUSE BLAST REACHES 4 PERSONS

08 octomber, 2018

The number of victims of the last Saturday night's gas explosion in the Chisinau multistory apartment house has reached four, it was announced in the emergency meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council [city legislature] on Monday morning.

Chisinau Deputy Mayor Nistor Grozavu said that on Monday morning the rescuers found the body of a woman under the debris.

"We were able to start clearing debris only one day after the disaster i.e. on Sunday evening because there was a danger of the collapse of the walls. Over the first 24 hours after the explosion, the rescuers were checking and fastening the walls from the ground floor up to the 13th floor, and only after that they could start clearing the debris in the ruined apartments on the floors 14th to 17th. On Sunday night, the rescuers extracted from under the debris the bodies of a 30-year-old woman and her 4-year-old son. A man aged 77 died at hospital a few hours after the explosion", said the Deputy Mayor.

Medical assistance was rendered to about 20 persons. Two of them are remaining at hospital - the woman through whose fault the explosion occurred, who is in a grave condition now, and a rescuer who was wounded by a falling ceiling plate during the rescue operation. His life is out of danger.

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