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What did the Odesa fire leave behind?
Summary
A retrospective on the fire in Odesa reported on 4 December 2019, and a gas pipeline opened two days earlier.
What was the toll of the fire in Odesa? As reported on 4 December 2019, 12 people died, 32 were injured and 8 were missing.
The figures show a disaster still unfolding on that date. With eight people unaccounted for, the number of dead could not be treated as final, and the count of the injured was set at 32.
Elsewhere in the region, Russia and China had inaugurated their joint Power of Siberia gas pipeline on 2 December 2019. That event sat alongside the Odesa news in the days around the covered date, though the two were unrelated.
Looking back, 4 December 2019 stands in this retrospective as a day of grief for Odesa, marked by the dead, the injured and the missing.
