18:00, 1 July 2011

Third victim of gas explosion in Vladikavkaz dies

As announced by the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of North Ossetia, another woman-victim of the explosion of gas cylinder in Vladikavkaz has died,. Therefore, the number of casualties of the accident has reached three persons.

The first victim of the explosion died on June 29 at 9:00 p.m. at the City Clinical Hospital No. 36 of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) of the Russian Federation in Moscow. The doctors rated her condition as the most grave among the victims. One more victim died on June 30. A 74-year-old man died at the Clinical Emergency Hospital of Vladikavkaz, he had got severe burning injuries, told a representative of the Ministry of Public Health of the republic.

The third deceased victim, Fatima Baeva-Sabanova, born in 1958, a resident of the village of Dur-Dur, got medical treatment at the Emergency Clinical Hospital in Vladikavkaz, the RIA "Novosti" reports. She died at 3:30 a.m. at night on July 1, the "Interfax" reports.