On Saturday, December 17, a

two-year-old boy was injured in the explosion of gas cylinders in

Kharkiv .

The child received 1st degree burns on the right forearm.

He was taken to the burn center.  

This was reported by the press service of the Department of Emergency Situations in the Kharkiv region.

"At 12:50 p.m. on Traktorobudivnykiv Avenue, 94, Kharkiv, in an apartment on the 10th floor of a 16-story residential building, an explosion of two gas cylinders occurred without further ignition," emergency workers reported.

It is noted that the boy independently turned on the oven where the balloons were lying - this was the cause of the explosion.

It will be recalled that

a gas explosion occurred in an apartment building in Minsk, killing six people, including a child

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