MOSCOW—An explosion at a gas station in Russia’s southern Chechnya region has killed at least four people, officials said Saturday.
A gas tank explosion sparked a fire at the gas station in the regional capital of Grozny, Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said, adding that two children were among the dead. The fire was extinguished.
Grozny is about 930 miles south of Moscow.
Regional authorities said a criminal investigation had been launched.
Last month, an explosion at a gas station in the neighboring Dagestan region killed at least 13 people and injured 23 others.