20:00, 2 July 2011

Death toll from gas explosion in Vladikavkaz reaches five

The fifth victim, injured in the blast of a gas cylinder at a wedding party in Vladikavkaz, died.

On July 2 in the day, Marat Dzagkoev, born in 1976, died in the resuscitation department of the clinical hospital in Vladikavkaz.

Since entering the hospital he was put on an artificial pulmonary ventilation, the "Interfax" reports. Marat Dzagkoev has got almost 100 per cent burning injures to his body, the "RIA "Novosti" writes.

The first victim of gas explosion died on June 29. Her condition was rated by doctors as the gravest one among the victims. Then on June 30 another victim, a 74-years-old man, died. On July 1 in the night Fatima Baeva-Sabanova, born in 1958, died in Vladikavkaz, on July 2 in the night Bella Taimurazovna Kadzasova died.