Four people were wounded after a gas explosion destroyed part of a five-story residential building in the Russian city of Naberezhnye Chelny 930 km (580 miles) east of Moscow. More than 30 people were evacuated from the site, the emergency service said in a report. A gas explosion has ripped …
Read More »Russian plane crashes, killing 19 and injuring three: Report
An L-410 plane crashed near a city in the Tatarstan region on Sunday, killing 16 people and injuring seven, the RIA news agency cited the emergency services as saying. The plane had been carrying a group of parachute jumpers onboard, the Emergencies Ministry said, according to the TASS news agency. …
Read More »Several children killed in Russia school shooting
At least seven children and one teacher killed in attack in Kazan, Tatarstan’s capital city. At least seven children and a teacher were killed in a shooting at a Russian school in the southwestern city of Kazan, local officials said. Rustam Minnikhanov, governor of the Tatarstan republic, of which Kazan …
Read More »Russia to build €2bn bridge as part of a route linking Europe & Western China.
Authorities in Russia’s Samara Region are ready to begin construction of a 4km-long (2.5 miles) bridge across the Volga; it is the first part of an ambitious international traffic corridor linking Europe with Western China. The bridge will cost 120.8 billion rubles (€1.6 billion or $1.8 billion), according to the …
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