The second defendant in the case of the collapse of a residential building in Novosibirsk due to an explosion of household gas, Yevgeny Kavun, was arrested by the court for two months. This was reported on February 10 by an Izvestia correspondent from the courtroom.
It is noted that as a result of a household gas explosion in a five-story apartment building, 13 people died.
According to the detainee himself, he was engaged in the replacement of gas pipes in apartments in the house where the explosion occurred and does not admit his guilt in what happened.
“The hose was replaced, but there were no complaints, no one called the dispatcher, no one contacted the gas service about the fact that there was a leak, three days passed, there were no complaints. <...> I don’t admit guilt, ”he said during a conversation with reporters.
As Kavun noted, if a gas leak occurred due to faulty equipment, then within three days from the moment the equipment was replaced, the residents of the house would smell gas and would report to the proper services. He also stressed that all installed gas pipes had the necessary certificates.
The detainee suggested that the cause of the gas explosion and the subsequent collapse of the residential building was the negligence in handling gas on the part of one of the residents of the apartment building.
Earlier that day, the court arrested another person involved in the case, Irina Urbakh, for two months. A criminal case was initiated against her and Kavun under Part 3 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Provision of services that do not meet security requirements”). The investigation found that a few days before the incident, they were performing maintenance work on gas stoves in several apartments of the multi-storey building in which the explosion occurred. The suspects presented themselves as employees of Mezhregiongaz Service LLC.
An explosion of domestic gas occurred on February 9 at around 7:43 (3:43 Moscow time) in a five-story panel building on Lineinaya Street. 30 apartments were destroyed in the building. The EMERCOM of the Russian Federation on February 10 completed the analysis of the rubble of a residential building. The collapse area was 200 square meters. m.
The governor of the region declared February 10 a day of mourning for those killed in the explosion. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that what happened is a tragedy, expressing condolences to the families of the victims, and wished recovery to the victims.
The families of the victims will be paid compensation of 1 million rubles, the victims – 200-400 thousand rubles (depending on the severity of the injuries).
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