Iran Press/Iran news: In a statement on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghassemi offered sympathy to the Russian government, nation and the families of the victims of tragic explosion at the building in Russia’s Magnitogorsk.
A section of a 10-storey building collapsed on Monday following the explosion believed to have been triggered by a natural gas leak according to an Iran Press report.
According to a spokesperson of the Russian Emergencies Ministry on Thursday, the death toll has now risen to 37, but rescue teams are still searching among a huge pile of rubble, but it is becoming increasing unlikely that further survivors will be found.
Magnitogorsk is located in Russia's Ural Federal District.
Emergency officers inspect rubble. Picture: AFP
The prospects of finding any of them alive in the rubble appeared dim after two frigid nights in which temperature fell to about minus 20 degrees Celsius.
On Tuesday, rescuers pulled an infant boy alive from the rubble of the building, some 35 hours after the collapse killed at least seven people and left dozens missing.
A day of mourning was declared in the Chelyabinsk region that includes Magnitogorsk, and residents laid flowers and placed candles at the scene.
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