The search operations found the body of a person under the rubble. Preliminary reports report 31 wounded.
Le Monde with AFP
An explosion occurred on Sunday, April 3, in a nightclub of the capital of Azerbaijan. The search and rescue operations found the body of a person under the rubble, and the preliminary reports report 31 wounded, reports the Ministry of Emergency situations on its website.
The ministry has declared a “received information on] an explosion in an installation on Tarlan Aliyarbeyov” in Baku, Sunday at 3 o’clock in the morning (1 hour in Paris), adding a fire. was declared in the establishment but had been turned off.
A gas leak involved
The explosion would have been caused by a gas leak and an investigation is in progress, the AG agency, citing a spokesman for the Azerbaijani Ministry of the Interior. At least 24 injured persons have been hospitalized, most of them with burns, AP reported a spokesman for the Ministry of Health.
The number of people present on the site at the time of the explosion has not been specified, but the Ministry of Emergency Situations statement specifies that research and rescue operations are underway. Photos showing them in the debris of the building have been published on the ministry’s website