Kazan gas explosion occurred on 2008 January 9 and destroyed a corner section of a three-story khrushchyovka-type building in Aviostroitelny City District, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. It happened at 0:28 a.m. local time (UTC +3).
The blast killed 8, one woman of the dead died in a hospital after being rescued. With temperatures at almost 30 degrees below zero, rescuers are in a race against time to reach survivors: the water in pipe and on the top of the ruins was frozen, whereas a fired continued at the lowest store level.
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