In Moldova, in a multi-storey building, a powerful explosion thundered. 3 people died.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic reports that on Saturday at 10:40 pm a gas cylinder exploded on the 15th floor of a residential building in Chisinau in the Ryshkanivka sector. The power of the explosion was so strong that the shock wave destroyed the concrete partitions and floors of several floors..

The bodies of two dead - a child and a woman - were found under the rubble.

Another dead - a man who was found alive, but later died in hospital.

Residents were evacuated from the house, 15 of them were accommodated in the city hospital - psychologists work with them. Seven people were injured, one of them was a rescuer who was injured during the debris handling.

The house was a 20-story.. The bodies of the child and women were found on the 14th floor.. The epicenter of the explosion was on the 16th floor: rescuers found fragments of a gas canister there.