One killed, several injured in Tbilisi residential building explosion

One person died and four were injured after an explosion in a residential building in the Ortachala quarter of Tbilisi, the country's Ministry of Health said, Report informs.

One of the injured is a child.

Part of the building's wall collapsed due to an explosion that occurred at night on the fourth floor of a former hotel hosting internally displaced persons from Abkhazia.

According to preliminary reports, the explosion was caused by a gas leak.