Russian region declares emergency after blast at military unit

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A almighty blast ripped done a Russian municipality eastbound of Moscow connected Tuesday wherever a weapons arsenal is located, section media and Telegram channels adjacent to Russia's information services said, prompting the evacuation of respective villages.

Local authorities declared a authorities of exigency successful the Vladimir region, wherever unverified video published connected Telegram showed a immense occurrence shot and clouds of heavy fume rising into the sky.

The defence ministry said the occurrence had been caused by a breach of information requirements and had resulted successful the detonation of ammunition stored successful a warehouse.

Preliminary accusation showed determination were nary casualties, the ministry added.

Vladimir's politician Alexander Avdeev said earlier that an detonation had occurred successful the Kirzhach territory and exigency unit were moving astatine the scene. He made nary notation of what was hit.

Baza, a Telegram transmission adjacent to information services, said astatine slightest 10-11 explosions had occurred and firefighters from neighbouring regions had been called successful to incorporate the blaze.

The territory medication successful Kirzhach wrote connected Telegram that evacuations were underway successful the villages of Barsovo and Mirniy.

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)