The Bucharest Court of Appeal Prosecutor’s Office said that in the criminal case investigating the circumstances of the explosion that took place on October 17 in an apartment building located in the Rahova neighborhood of Bucharest, which resulted in the death of three people, bodily injury to 15 others, the destruction or rendering unusable of 54 apartments, as well as the destruction or damage of 30 cars, prosecutors have ordered a criminal investigation into the crime of negligent destruction resulting in a disaster.

Two legal entities are under investigation, one of which is a natural gas distribution operator and the other an economic operator authorized by the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) to execute natural gas installations, as well as three individuals, one of whom is an employee of the natural gas operator, and the other two are employees of the...