Categories: World

Siberian apartment blast death toll rises to 12

close Video

Fox News Flash top headlines for February 10

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com.

Authorities say a gas explosion in an apartment building in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk has killed at least 12 people, including a 2-year-old child.

The Thursday morning explosion caused two entrances of the five-story building to collapse, with 30 apartments destroyed by the ensuing fire.

JAPANESE COURT DENIES MEDICAL AID FOR CHILDREN OF HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS

In this photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, Emergency service employees work at a site of a five-story residential building collapsed after the gas explosion in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia, on Feb. 9, 2023. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Russian news agencies cited the city’s emergency services as saying 12 people were killed, nine others were hospitalized and the fate of three people believed to be in the building was unknown.

Novosibirsk is the biggest city in Siberia and Russia’s third-largest by population, with about 1.6 million people.

Share

Recent Posts

Court orders Tufts University student be quickly moved to ICE custody in Vermont, denies government appeal

close Video Security camera captures moment Tufts student on visa arrested by DHS A security…

2 hours ago

University of Washington faces Trump admin antisemitism scrutiny over anti-Israel protests

close Video Anti-Israel protesters set fire to University of Washington Fox News correspondent Brooke Singman…

2 hours ago

Top House committees accuse Dem fundraising giant of facilitating ‘bad actors’ in bombshell DOJ letter

FIRST ON FOX: Three top committees within the House of Representatives are delivering an update…

2 hours ago

Potential adoption roadblocks could soon be removed as GOP ramps up pressure: ‘Safe, loving homes’

FIRST ON FOX: Republican lawmakers are re-introducing legislation to make sure parents seeking to only…

2 hours ago

President Trump announces multiple judicial nominees, accuses court system of blocking him from doing his job

President Donald Trump – whose second-term agenda has been bogged down by judicial roadblocks –…

2 hours ago

Trump to rename Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf ahead of US-Iran nuclear talks, Middle East trip: report

President Donald Trump is reportedly to rename the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead…

2 hours ago