Five militiamen wounded in Chechnya as a result of a domestic gas explosion

At night of January, 29, an explosion of domestic gas took place in one of the back rooms of a unit of the Ministry of Interior Affairs dislocated in the settlement of Khankala, in the neighbourhood of Grozny. Five officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia assigned to Chechnya from different regions were taken to hospital with woundings of various extent of gravity.

According to law enforcement bodies of Chechnya, an inspection is going on upon the incident. The investigation's main version is non-observance of safety provisions by the militiamen while using gas equipment.

On January, 22, two little children perished in the settlement of Kharkovskaya, Shelkovskoy district of Chechnya, as a result of domestic gas escape. One more child, a boy of seven, got burns.

"Caucasian Knot" has formerly reported that in the evening of December, 20, 2010, a 12-storey dwelling house in the center of the Chechen capital caught fire. Ten people who got poisoned with carbon monoxide received medical aid.

According to the republican Ministry of Emergency Situations, over 400 fires of various extent of complicacy took place in the territory of the Chechen Republic last year. 12 people perished and over 50 got burns and traumas as a result of these fires.