Hope Fades for Survivors under Building Rubble

World | March 18, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
Hope Fades for Survivors under Building Rubble Rescue operations are finished at the site of the explosion of the apartment block in the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk. Saturday, March 20 has been declared a day of mourning in the region. Photo by RTR.

The death toll in Arkhangelsk apartment-building blast surpasses 55. Rescuers called off the search Thursday for victims of a devastating explosion blamed on natural gas that tore through part of a nine-storey apartment building in northern Russia as residents slept, killing 58 people, including nine children. Twenty-four people were pulled alive from the rubble, but two women died later in the hospital. Questions remained about the precise cause of the explosion that sheared off 36 apartments, leaving a pile of rubble two to three storeys hig

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