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Two dead, 15 injured in Russian shop blast - ministry

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MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti) - Two people were killed and 15 were injured Friday in a blast in a furniture store in the town of Gus Khrustalny in European Russian, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

The explosion caused a fire to spread in the residential block in which the store is located.

Some 150 residents had been evacuated, a spokesman for the ministry said.

The spokesman added that twelve firefighting teams were involved in extinguishing the blaze, but said the extremely low temperatures were hampering their work.

Figures given by the Prosecutor's Office of the Vladimir Region differed from the ministry's, with the office saying that one person had been killed and 14 injured in the explosion.

A spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office said it was examining all possible causes of the incident.

A gas stove had been used to heat the building and three containers of propane had been kept there, the spokesman said.

Prosecutor Vyacheslav Chebotaryov was on his way to the site of the explosion, he said.

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