3 dead, 79 missing after gas explosion rocks Russia high-rise

An entire section of the 12-storey residential building collapsed due to a gas explosion in the high-rise in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk nearly 1,700 km east of Moscow in the Ural mountains. Three people have been pulled alive and three are dead while the fate of 79 people remains unclear. The Soviet-era high-rise was built in 1973 and was home to around 1,100 people.

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