New photo Russian investigators DENY tower block collapse was a terror attack

Russian officials have denied that an explosion in a tower block on New Year's Day was a terror attack.

Investigators at the scene of the blast in the city of Magnitogorsk, located near the border with Kazakhstan, say no traces of explosives have been found and that a gas leak is to blame.

They added that the blast was unconnected with a minibus which exploded the following day due to a leaking fuel tank.

The news came as the death toll from the tower disaster was increased to 22, with 19 people still missing. 

Investigators say no traces of explosives have been found at the tower block which collapsed in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk, and put the blast down to a gas leak (pictured today)

Officials spoke out as the death toll from the collapse was raised to 22, with 19 people still unaccounted for amid the rubble (collapsed tower pictured on Monday)

An Orthodox memorial service was held at the site of an apartment block collapse in Magnitogorsk on Tuesday before a baby was pulled from the rubble on Wednesday

Braving temperatures as low as -27C, rescue workers spent Wednesday combing through mangled concrete and metal for any more survivors.

Their efforts were given a boost on Tuesday when a 10-month-old boy was found alive and reunited with his mother. 

But hope was starting to fade of finding more survivors.

The emergency situations ministry said that the bodies of 22 people, including two children, had been recovered from the partly collapsed building.

Six people, including two children, had been rescued.

'Work is continuing 24 hours a day' the ministry said, noting that 800 square metres of debris - loaded into 50 dump trucks - had been cleared in the last 24 hours.

The explosion tore through the 10-storey building in the industrial town nearly 1,050 miles east of Moscow in the early hours of Monday. 

Rescue workers were continuing the grim task of searching through the rubble at the scene of the explosion on Wednesday

Police also denied that there was any link between the tower collapse and a minivan which exploded in the city on Tuesday, saying that was down to a leaking fuel tank 

Reports in Russian newspapers had suggested a major manhunt was underway after officers fired at the vehicle, but this was later denied 

Witnesses described seeing a 'wave of fire' and said the blast was strong enough to shatter windows in nearby buildings.

The Soviet-era apartment block was home to about 1,100 people and the explosion left dozens homeless over the New Year - the biggest holiday of the year in Russia. 

Rumours of a terror attack swirled around on social media earlier in the day amid reports that three terrorists had been killed in the wake of the blast.  

A report said that three suspected terrorists died after police fired at their Gazel vehicle and that one had escaped and was on the run. 

The incident was reported to have taken place on Lenina Street, around one and a half miles from the blitzed apartment block on Karl Marx Street. 

The znak.com website, which reported the claims, was immediately blocked in the wake of the report.

Tuesday's recovery of an infant offered a rare moment of hope, with officials describing his rescue as a 'New Year's miracle'.

The boy was found in his cradle after rescuers heard him crying from under the rubble. He was brought to his mother, who had survived the blast, and then flown to Moscow for treatment.

Chelyabinsk Region Governor Boris Dubrovsky (right) attends an Orthodox memorial service at the site

Chelyabinsk Region Governor Boris Dubrovsky (left) speaks with Yevgeny Fokin, the father of the 11-month-old baby found alive in the rubble

A total of 48 apartments were damaged in the ten-storey building. A huge fire broke out after an explosion

Russian television showed footage of the boy lying in a hospital bed watched by his tearful mother.

Medical officials in Moscow said he was in serious but stable condition after suffering from severe frostbite, a head injury and multiple fractures.

Residents left homeless by the explosion were being housed in a nearby school and helped by a team of psychologists.

Wednesday was a day of mourning in the region, with flags lowered and entertainment events cancelled, in a country where New Year's celebrations are an annual highlight.

Mourners laid flowers and lit candles near the site of the building.

'We are all grieving,' a middle-aged man told Rossiya 24 television. 'Nearly everyone in the city knew someone' caught up in the accident.

City officials said funerals would start being held from Friday.

Meanwhile, families of the victims were told they would receive financial assistance to pay for funerals and additional help of 50,000 rubles (£570) for those injured and twice that amount for those killed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting in the Emergencies Ministry's rescue operation headquarters on the site after the explosion

Nine bodies have been pulled from the ten storey apartment block wreckage. Six were brought out alive, including two children. The fate of at least 32 residents in the block is unknown but most are feared dead in temperatures as low as minus 23C

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