The rupture of a cartridge in a backpack became one of the versions of the death of a teenager in Khimki.

The rupture of a regenerative cartridge in his backpack is considered as one of the main versions of the death of a minor in Khimki. This was announced on Sunday, December 21, by a source of Izvestia.

So, according to his information, one of the teenagers injured in the tragedy told investigators that there were four cylinders of compressed oxygen in his dead friend's backpack.

Such objects, as the young man explained, are called "rpgs". The interlocutor of Izvestia clarified that it was they who could detonate.

A powerful explosion at a factory in Kopeisk: what is known about the victims and injured

The death toll from the incident has increased to 12 people.

It became known about the death of a teenager in an explosion in Khimki near Moscow on December 20. A source from Izvestia said that the incident was recorded on Banny Lane in the Skhodnya neighborhood. The press service of the Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region reported on the same day that two people were also injured in the incident, whose condition was assessed as severe and moderate, respectively.

Later, Izvestia published footage from the scene of the tragedy — at that time it was cordoned off by law enforcement officers. Specialists, as noted, had to thoroughly examine the scene of the incident and collect all the evidence in order to establish the exact cause of the incident. On the same evening, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case on the death of a teenager in accordance with Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Causing death by negligence")

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