The cause of the fire in an apartment building in Lobnya was a gas explosion.

The cause of the fire in an apartment building in Lobnya, which killed two people, was a gas explosion. This was reported on May 20 by the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation for the Moscow region.

"This morning, a gas explosion occurred in one of the apartments located on the 3rd floor of a multi-storey residential building on Kalinina Street in the city of Lobnya. As a result, the inter—apartment wall collapsed," the department said in a message on the Maks messenger.

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