Three people were hospitalized after an explosion in an apartment building in the Sverdlovsk region.

Three people injured in the explosion in Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk region, were hospitalized. This was announced on January 4 by Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"The landlady and two other women from the neighboring apartment were taken to the hospital for primary medical care," TASS quoted him as saying.

Prior to that, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation reported that the open gorenje that arose after the explosion had been eliminated. It was specified that the fire area was 35 sq.m.

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A gas explosion in an apartment building in Pervouralsk occurred earlier that day. It was clarified that the staff of the Ministry of Emergency Situations rescued two people, five more residents evacuated on their own. 16 specialists and six pieces of equipment are involved in extinguishing the fire.

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