{"id":27657,"date":"2019-01-01T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27657"},"modified":"2019-01-01T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T15:23:06","slug":"rescuers-pull-baby-boy-alive-from-russian-apartment-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27657","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers pull baby boy alive from Russian apartment collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rescuers have pulled an infant boy alive from the rubble of an apartment building, some 35 hours after a collapse<\/a> that has killed at least seven people and left dozens missing.<\/p>\n

They found the baby on Tuesday after hearing cries amid the debris.<\/p>\n

A section of the 10-storey building in Magnitogorsk,\u00a0Russia<\/a> collapsed on Monday following an explosion believed to have been triggered by a natural gas leak.<\/p>\n

The baby, who officials initially said was a girl, was seriously injured and his recovery prospects were unclear.<\/p>\n

The boy’s mother survived the collapse and went to a local hospital to identify him, the state news agency, Tass, reported, citing the regional emergencies ministry. The child will be evacuated to Moscow by aeroplane for further treatment, Tass said.<\/p>\n

Thirty-seven residents of the building are still missing, the regional emergency minister said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Another 10 people had to be dug out of the rubble of the building, Tass reported, while 16 people were evacuated from the building without injuries.<\/p>\n

According to Tass, the vice governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Oleg Klimov, said there were 79 residents of the building.<\/p>\n

At the emergency site, some 470 people with 70 excavators and vehicles searched through the rubble.<\/p>\n

Hopes of finding survivors were dimmed by the harsh cold; temperatures overnight were around minus 18 Celsius.<\/p>\n

“The child was saved because it was in a crib and wrapped warmly,” said regional governor Boris Dubrovsky according to the Interfax news agency.<\/p>\n

Rescue crews had temporarily halted their search while workers tried to remove or stabilise sections of the building in danger of collapse.<\/p>\n

Five people were hospitalised with injuries from the collapse in the city located about 1,400km southeast of Moscow, the emergency ministry said.<\/p>\n

In a separate holiday period disaster, seven people including a couple and their three children died in a house fire in the town of Orsk, about 1,500km southeast of Moscow, Interfax said. The fire early Tuesday is believed to have been caused by an electrical short-circuit, the report said.<\/p>\n

Explosions in Russian apartment buildings occur from time to time. Magnitogorsk is considered one of the worst-polluted cities in the world due to its metallurgy and steel industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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