Gas explosion in Kyiv: third victim's body pulled out of rubble

Rescuers have removed the body of a woman from the rubble of a 16-story building damaged by an explosion in the Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv.

Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klychko said this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"Rescuers have removed another body from the rubble of a building in the Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv - that of a dead woman," the statement reads.

According to the State Emergency Service, as of 12:15 a.m., the explosion in the high-rise building killed three people, injured five (three of them hospitalized) and rescued 20 people.

Rescuers and special equipment of the Mobile Rescue Center are at the scene. The damaged structures are being dismantled.

Earlier, the State Emergency Service reported that two people were killed and five others injured in an explosion in a 16-storey building in the Dniprovskyi district of the capital.

As reported, on June 22, at about 4:00 a.m., a strong explosion occurred in a 16-story building in the Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv, which demolished the walls on three floors at once and started a fire of 150 square meters.

According to the State Emergency Service, five apartments on the 6th, 7th and 8th floors were destroyed.