A criminal case was opened over the explosion in an Irkutsk apartment building

In Irkutsk, a criminal case was opened over an explosion and fire in a wooden apartment house where eight people died, including three children. Preliminary data say a household gas cylinder on the second floor caused the tragedy.

According to preliminary data, a household gas cylinder exploded on the second floor of the building.
The Investigative Department for the Sverdlovsky District of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region has opened a criminal case over the explosion and fire in a residential building in Irkutsk, which killed eight people, including three children.
Information about the fire in an eight-apartment wooden house in Irkutsk’s Pervomaysky microdistrict was received by the duty desk of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on May 3 at 09:28.
As Vladimir Salovarov, senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region, told Interfax-Siberia, the criminal case was opened under Part 3 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("causing death by negligence to two or more persons").