Gas explosion in Dnipro, October 14, 2007

October 14, 2007, Dnipropetrovsk (since 2016, Dnipro).

A plot about the second day of cleaning up after a household gas explosion in an apartment building. The destroyed entrance to the building, rescuers clearing the rubble, the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Clinical Hospital named after Ilya Mechnikov, a victim in a hospital ward, a journalist's stand-up report against the backdrop of a gas distribution point, a shop without electricity near the building.

Comments: Minister of Emergency Situations Nestor Shufrich; Acting Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Viktor Bondar; Chief Physician of the Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital Volodymyr Pavlov; victim in the ward Liana; resident of the building Mykola Zhukov.

Reference: On October 13, 2007, a domestic gas explosion occurred in a ten-story residential building on Mandrykovskaya Street in Dnipropetrovsk, completely destroying the entrance and damaging neighboring buildings. Twenty-three people were killed, about 20 were injured, and dozens of families were left homeless. The investigation linked the tragedy to violations in the work of Dniprogaz, and several of its managers were convicted of negligence in 2013.