The Russian Investigation Committee publicized the cause for the February 14 explosion and ensuing fire at a Volgograd city café, which resulted in injuries among several Armenians as well. 

The incident occurred because of the café’s natural gas heater, which was intended for closed spaces.  

The café’s owner Andrey Koshkdaev was charged with violating the fire safety rules, which resulted in a serious damage to health, and, also, with providing services that do not meet the consumers’ life or health requirements, rbc informs.   

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, a fire had broke at Volgograd’s Bellagio Café on February 14, and as a result 23 people had sustained different-degree burns.  

The injured also included Armenia’s citizen Svetlana Ghazaryan as well as Russia’s citizens Anna Shahnazyan, Yelena Sahakyan, Hovhannes Ghazaryan, Artur Abrahamyan, and Arsen Muradyan.