A total of 39 of dead in Magnitogorsk have been identified, said the First Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations of Russia Alexander Chupriyan.

According to him, all 39 bodies of people killed were identified, TASS reported.

An apartment block collapsed in Magnitogorsk on December 31. The incident claimed the lives of 39 people. Six people were injured, five of them, including two children, are in hospitals.