He noted that the bodies of two victims had already been found, and search and rescue efforts were continuing.
Speaker of the State Emergency Service of the Kharkov region, Evgeny Vasilenko, in a commentary to Suspilny, said that the explosion occurred in an apartment on the fifth floor of a 16-story building on Valentinovskaya Street at 1.30. As a result, the ceiling between three floors was damaged. The dead are a man and a woman.
Director of the Department of Emergency Situations Bogdan Gladkikh informed that the dead were in the apartment where the explosion occurred. Their identities are being established. A resident of the apartment below was also injured, and another resident sought medical attention with an acute stress reaction.
