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07 May 2018, 17:01

Man killed by explosion in Stavropol apartment building

A resident of a multi-storey building in Stavropol made a self-explosion, the unified duty-dispatching service has reported. According to preliminary data, a former law enforcer has blown up a grenade, a source reports.

The incident has occurred today on the top floor of a multi-storey building in Shpakovskaya Street. Tenants of the house were evacuated, Stavropol territorial law enforcement bodies have reported.

The TASS has confirmed with reference to a source from the above dispatching service that it was a self-explosion; there is no threat to the tenants.

The "Interfax" reports that according to preliminary data, a former law enforcer made a self-explosion by triggering a grenade.

"According to preliminary data, the casualty is a man born in 1978, who, for yet unknown reasons, triggered a grenade; he died, and nobody was hurt," a source told the "Interfax".

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

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