MOSCOW — The Latest on the search of a partially collapsed apartment building in Russia: (all times local):5:20 p.m.Russia’s emergencies ministry says the search of the concrete rubble from a partially collapsed apartment building has ended and the number of deaths stands at 39. The ministry declared the operation by hundreds of rescue workers completed Thursday, three-and-a-half days after a section of a 10-story apartment block collapsed in an explosion. He is being treated in Moscow for serious injuries and was described as being in stable condition on Thursday. The death toll from the collapse of a Russian apartment building has risen to 37 after more bodies were discovered by crews searching the huge pile of concrete rubble. Nighttime temperatures in the city 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) southeast of Moscow have fallen to about minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit).

Source: National Post January 03, 2019 14:26 UTC