At Least One Killed in Thermal Power Station Blast in Russia's Penza - Source

At least one person was killed on Thursday in an explosion that took place at a thermal power station in Russia's city of Penza and resulted in partial collapse of the building, a source with the emergencies services told Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Representative of the local emergency service confirmed to Sputnik that the building had partially collapsed and one person had been affected by the incident.

"According to preliminary data, a roof of the thermal power station has collapsed… over an area of 300 square meters [358 square yards]," the source said.

The source later specified that the area of the collapsed roof had increased up to 600 square meters.

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