Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Saturday that people will be moved to temporary accommodation centers.
Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram account that 3,000 residents in 17 apartment buildings were evacuated in the region after the bomb, which Gladkov and the Russian news agency TASS referred to as an"explosive object," was found where the first explosion happened on Thursday.
"Additional information on the emergency at Shalandin Street, 15. Sappers found an explosive object. Explosive technicians of the Russian Defense Ministry decided to disarm it at the range. Operational headquarters decided to evacuate 17 apartment buildings within a radius of 200 meters. According to preliminary data, this is more than 3,000 people," Gladkov wrote Saturday.
The Thursday explosion happened due to an"emergency" release of air ordnance while a Russian Su-34 aircraft, a twin-engine fighter-bomber, was flying over Belgorod, which is located around 24 miles north of the Ukrainian border, according toThe Russian city of Belgorod is seen on April 11, 2019. Thousands of residents have been evacuated after a second bomb that didn't explode was found in Belgorod on Saturday near an area where another bomb fell earlier this week.
The Thursday blast left two people injured, according to Gladkov on Telegram. Meanwhile, Belgorod Mayor Valentin Demidov said that several apartment buildings were damaged, CNN reported.by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian minister of internal affairs, showed Russian law enforcement on the ground responding to the site where the second bomb was found. The video also showed blocked roads and cars stuck in traffic.
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