Emergency officials in Russia's southwestern Krasnodar region said on July 23 that a woman who was injured in a suspected gas explosion that completely leveled a shopping center in the city of Apsheronsk a day earlier had died in the hospital. Two other people remain in the hospital, while rescue workers continue to search for survivors or bodies under the debris. The regional prosecutor's office has said the building was destroyed by a gas explosion. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Caucasus.Realities, click here.
Woman Dies From Injuries After Explosion Levels Russian Shopping Center
Emergency personnel work at the scene of the destroyed shopping center in Apsheronsk on July 22.