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Moscow: The death toll from the partial collapse of a residential building in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, has increased to 10, the Ministry of Emergency Situations announced.
On Friday, the Ministry reported that 10 bodies had been recovered and 15 individuals were rescued from the debris, as per Xinhua news agency. Five of the rescued are said to be in critical condition in the hospital.
Local officials have designated August 3 as a day of mourning for those who perished in the disaster. The Ministry has confirmed that search and rescue efforts are still underway.
The incident took place on Thursday when an explosion of a gas-air mixture caused two sections of a five-story building in Nizhny Tagil, situated in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Oblast, to collapse.
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