Among the dead are six children.
It was early on Monday as part of a ten-storey house collapsed.
in the biting cold under the threat that various parts of the house must crumble. In total, six people were rescued and four people are still missing.
The death toll has increased steadily since the accident on new year’s eve, but no survivors have been found since Tuesday, when a ten-month-old boy was rescued from the rubble.
where a total of around 1,100 people live. It is suspected that a gas explosion is behind husraset, but this is still under investigation. No traces of explosives have been found on the site.
gas explosions are relatively common in Russia, where a large part of the infrastructure, as well as the house in Magnitogorsk, were built during the Soviet era.
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