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At least 33 dead after building collapse in Russia


Rescue workers at a collapsed apartment building in Magnitogorsk, Russia, on Monday. Associated Press/Photo by Maxim Shmakov

At least 33 dead after building collapse in Russia

Search crews are still pulling bodies from the rubble of an apartment building in Magnitogorsk, Russia, that collapsed Monday. At least 33 people are dead, including a 3-year-old girl found on Wednesday. Authorities said eight people who lived in the building are still unaccounted for, including several children. A section of the 10-story apartment building collapsed early Monday morning in the city of about 400,000 people located 870 miles southeast of Moscow. The collapse followed an explosion believed related to a gas leak.

Rescue workers on Tuesday found an 11-month-old boy still alive, nearly 36 hours after the building collapsed. He was flown to a children’s hospital in Moscow and is in serious but stable condition. Officials said they don’t expect to find anyone else alive—overnight temperatures have been at about 4 below zero Fahrenheit the last two nights. Local officials declared a day of mourning in the Chelyabinsk region on Wednesday as residents laid flowers and lit candles at the scene.

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include the latest number of people killed and missing from the building collapse.


Kiley Crossland Kiley is a former WORLD correspondent.


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