Ministry of Health: the number of victims in Nizhny Tagil has increased to 20 people
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A representative of the Ministry of Health of Nizhny Tagil reported updated data on the number of injured as a result of a collapse in an apartment building in the city. According to him, at the moment, 20 victims are known.
"As a result of the emergency, 20 people were injured, nine of them children. 11 patients, including five children, were hospitalized in hospitals in Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil,” the department specified.
Earlier it became known about the collapse of the first and second entrances of the house at the address. Sibirskaya, 81 in Nizhny Tagil. According to preliminary data, the cause of the tragedy was a gas explosion.