First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Sergei Shoigu and Presidential Envoy in the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov (left to right) at the site of a nine-story residential building which collapsed in Astrakhan after a gas explosion.

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First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Sergei Shoigu and Presidential Envoy in the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov (left to right) at the site of a nine-story residential building which collapsed in Astrakhan after a gas explosion.

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First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Sergei Shoigu and Presidential Envoy in the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov (left to right) at the site of a nine-story residential building which collapsed in Astrakhan after a gas explosion.

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Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov and Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Sergei Shoigu (left to right) at the site of a nine-story residential building which collapsed in Astrakhan after a gas explosion.

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Clearing the debris of an apartment building which collapsed due to a household gas explosion, in Astrakhan.

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Clearing the debris of an apartment building collapsed due to a household gas explosion, in Astrakhan.

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Russia's EMERCOM workers clear the debris of an apartment building which collapsed due to a household gas explosion, in Astrakhan.

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Russia's EMERCOM workers clear the debris of an apartment building which collapsed due to a household gas explosion, in Astrakhan.

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Russia's EMERCOM workers clear the debris of an apartment building which collapsed due to a household gas explosion, in Astrakhan.

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Clearing the debris of an apartment building collapsed due to a household gas explosion, in Astrakhan.

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Rescue teams work near the debris of a house that collapse following a natural gas explosion.

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Rescue teams work near the debris of a house that collapse following a natural gas explosion.

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Rescue teams work near the debris of a house that collapse following a natural gas explosion.

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Rescue teams work near the debris of a house that collapse following a natural gas explosion.

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Rescue teams work near the debris of a house that collapse following a natural gas explosion.

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Rescue teams work near the debris of a house that collapse following a natural gas explosion.

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Rescue teams work near the debris of a house that collapse following a natural gas explosion.

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Rescue teams work near the debris of a house that collapse following a natural gas explosion.

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