Property and business interruption

8.2, explosion, fatalities

Russia: a total of 12 people were killed when a military barracks collapsed in Russia’s Chechnya region after what appeared to be a domestic gas explosion. Twenty-two people were injured when the two-storey building at Kurchaloi, about 100 km from the regional capital, Grozny, came down after the blast. A fire that followed the explosion was brought under control and the scene of the blast was cordoned off. Soldiers helped emergency services well into the night to remove chunks of rubble trapping colleagues.