The regional emergencies ministry said on Wednesday that eighteen dead bodies have been recovered from the debris of an apartment block in Russia that partially collapsed in an apparent explosion, with twenty-three people still unaccounted for.
The blast, initially thought to have been caused by a gas leak, damaged 48 apartments in a 10-story building in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the early hours on Monday east of Moscow.
A baby boy was found alive on Tuesday after 35 hours spent in freezing cold in the rubble, in what emergency officials described as a miracle.
In a separate incident late on Tuesday, three people died on the same street where the building collapsed, when a minibus became engulfed in flames, TASS news agency reported citing the local government office.
The reason behind the collapse of the apartment block is still being investigated, the Investigative Committee, which probes into major cries, said on its website.
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