Six people had been pulled out of the rubble as of 9:50 a.m. local time in Magnitogorsk, an industrial city in Russia's Chelyabinsk region near the border with Kazakhstan, Russia's Tass news agency reported, citing a statement from the Crisis Management Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
Chelyabinsk Deputy Gov. Oleg Klimov said 79 people were still missing, according to Tass. A search and rescue effort is underway involving 469 emergency workers.
The local branch of Russia's Federal Security Service said the blast was believed to have been caused by a gas explosion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dispatched Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova to the city, Tass reported.
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