An apartment block west of Moscow partially collapsed following a suspected gas explosion over the weekend, killing at least four people, emergency officials said Sunday.
The blast occurred on Saturday afternoon while workers were repairing a ceiling in one of the building’s apartments in the Moscow region town of Pavlovskaya Sloboda, RIA-Novosti reported.
Some of the supporting walls of the three-story building gave way, and a fire broke out.
Three bodies were retrieved from the building Saturday, while the fourth body —? a woman —? was found Sunday morning, the Moscow branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Nine people were injured, a ministry spokeswoman told RIA-Novosti.
(MT, AP)