Authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv said at least four people were killed and five were injured when a gas cylinder exploded, causing a fire and the collapse of a former factory in the city’s eastern Darnytskyi District on Thursday, February 9.Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko
said four men were found dead and five others — two women and three men — were pulled alive from the rubble of the building.This footage from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (
SES) shows rescue crews pulling survivors from the rubble and carrying them away on stretchers.The
SES said 124 personnel responded to the scene. Credit:
SES of Ukraine via Storyful