In the city of Orel was an emergency: whether the shop on fire, or storage of fireworks. According to preliminary data, there are dead and injured. According to the MOE, open fire was extinguished at 16:05 MSK. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the explosion and subsequent fire occurred at about 14:30.
Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Oryol region opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Art. 218 of the Criminal Code (violation of the rules of accounting, storage, transportation and use of explosive flammable substances and pyrotechnic articles).
Police said that as a result of emergency in-store stock in a private house, killing two people, it was the warehouse staff. Another 19 people were injured, they were taken to hospital, according to “Interfax” the representative of Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region.
According to sources, the agency for emergency services in the region, among the victims there are minor: they were sent to
regional hospital, they have multiple burns. “14 hospitalized victims. According to some data, among them three children – six, nine and 12 years”, – told Tass in the territorial centers of disaster medicine.
Two children were burned, one of them diagnosed with psychological shock. Adults taken to hospital with stab wounds, one woman – a fracture of the spine, said the spokesperson of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Central Federal District Julia Dashkevich.
The store owner pyrotechnics previously won the contract for the city fireworks in honor of Victory Day. “Killing the father and son. Father – the director of” Max. “They won the municipal contract for the organization of fireworks on May 9,” – said a spokesman for the regional governor Stanislav Fishermen in Twitter .
Meanwhile, the prosecutor requested the Oryol region prosecutors to conduct field testing of shops selling pyrotechnic products in the region.
From kindergarten and school children were evacuated
It was initially reported that the explosions began it in a fire. Later, however, the police said that, on the contrary, the fire followed by explosions. “According to preliminary data, pyrotechnics stock owned by an individual entrepreneur, there was an explosion, followed by
fire, resulting in fire spread to several buildings ”
- According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Orel.
“According to preliminary data, pyrotechnics stored in the wrong place for that does not match the necessary measures and storage conditions
dangerous items. The owners of the store were stored pyrotechnics
simply in the barn. As a result, one of the pyrotechnic systems detonated, “-” Interfax “a source in the emergency services in the region.
The press service of the Central Regional Centre (TSRTS) Emergencies Ministry clarified Tass that near the site of the incident are kindergartens and schools in some of these explosions shattered windows. Children evacuated.
Photos of emergency made by eyewitnesses, appeared on the web.
“Komsomolskaya Pravda” reports that the explosion occurred in Orel in the third hour of the day. Cotton was heard throughout the city. “At first explosion rocked one, and then another series of small”, – told reporters witness Elena Verizhnikova.
The fire spread to the neighboring houses
Source of “Interfax” in the emergency services said that the fire spread to the standing near a two-story apartment building, residents evacuated. “In total, burning three buildings, one of which – a two-story apartment house,” – said the source. According to TASS, the fire was extinguished in the store nearly 40 firefighters.
It was reported that arrived at the scene six ambulances and car service of disaster medicine. In extinguishing the fire was attended by all the units of urban fire departments. “Concerned passers-by, young men, and help people to evacuate, and firefighters,” – said the representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
After extinguishing the fire, investigators will begin to work.
Media: warehouse, where he kept pyrotechnics, was illegal
Local media reported that the incident occurred in one of the private houses and a warehouse with lots of fireworks firecrackers obviously was illegal. The explosion was very strong, a column of smoke rose to ten meters. From the barn of cinder block, which stores pyrotechnic products, almost nothing left, the website Orelgrad.ru . According to the site, in the administrative building “Zelenstroyi” blast blew out the windows on the first floor. And in garages neighbors bent steel doors.
Because of the explosions in the burning shop smashed glass in neighboring houses, reports Tass on TSRTS MOE. Users of social networks Twitter report , that the blast blew out windows in the school gym, located a kilometer away from the place of incident. Also, in their data , shattered windows in houses 300 meters from the epicenter of the event (Engels Street).
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