OREANDA-NEWS Five people, three of them children, were hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the central district hospital after an explosion at their house in the village of Kusheevo in the Abzelilovsky district of Bashkiria. The incident occurred the night before.

"At nine o'clock in the evening, according to preliminary information, a gas boiler was depressurized in a residential building on Tagir Kusimov Street, followed by a fire," the press service of the main Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Bashkiria reported.

By the time firefighters arrived, the house was completely engulfed in flames. It is noted that five people were injured, including two women and three children (girls born in 2015, 2017 and 2019). According to the investigator of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a large family lived in the house, the head of the family was at work at the time of the fire.

The cause of the incident is being determined.

A pre-investigation check has been initiated, which is supervised by the Bashkiria Prosecutor's office, the press service of the supervisory authority reported.