1,100 houses without gas in Moscow reg due to pipeline emergency
MOSCOW. September 29. KAZINFORM More than 1,100 private houses and 200 apartments in the Moscow region remain without natural gas supply due to an accident on a gas pipeline on the Novorizhskoye highway, Moscow region' s police told Itar-Tass on Wednesday, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
In an incident in the Krasnogorsk district on the 28th kilometre of the Baltia federal highway a driver of a Toyota car lost control of the vehicle, as a result the car skidded off the road into a ditch and hit a gas distribution station of the main gas pipeline with the diameter of 300 mm owned by the Mosoblgaz company. This collision caused a fire that was liquidated in two hours. The Toyota driver died of burns.
The emergency restoration efforts continue, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full verison.