OREANDA-NEWS The number of victims of the emergency in Makhachkala has increased to 30 people, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

"As a result of emergency rescue operations, the bodies of three more victims were found. In total, at the moment, as a result of a fire at a gas station in Makhachkala, 105 people were injured, 30 of them were killed," the ministry said.

As the head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov clarified earlier, three of the victims were children.

On the evening of August 14, a car service caught fire on the outskirts of Makhachkala, then the fire spread to a gas station, after which an explosion occurred. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia informed that the fire area was 500 square meters, and the fire was localized on 600 squares.

First Deputy Minister of Health of Russia Viktor Fisenko flew to Dagestan to organize medical care for the wounded. The victims of the explosion will be taken to Moscow hospitals by a special board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, which has already flown out of the capital.

The families of the victims will receive one million rubles each.