The Russian Emergency Ministry said 115 people were injured and 35 of them had died, three of them children.
A total of 65 of the injured, including 16 children, were still hospitalized at noon Tuesday, the ministry said. Eleven people, two of them children, were seriously ill.
The explosion occurred on Monday night on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of the region. The fire started at an auto repair shop and spread to a nearby gas station, sparking an explosion.
The families of the deceased will receive one million rubles (about $10,000) each, according to the Dagestan authorities, and the injured between 200,000 and 400,000 rubles (between $2,000 and $4,000).
Some of the injured would be airlifted to Moscow for treatment, according to Russian state media. Makhachkala is about 1,600 kilometers (990 miles) south of Moscow.
Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation. Tuesday was declared a day of mourning in Dagestan.
In another Russian region, Siberia, an explosion killed two people and injured five on Monday night. The incident occurred at night at an oil farm in the Khanty-Mansiysk region, according to local authorities.
The explosion in Dagestan was the deadliest in Russia since April 2022, when a fire at a defense research center in Tver, a city 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Moscow, killed 22 people and injured a dozen. further.
A blast at a factory north of Moscow that makes optical equipment for Russian security forces has killed one person and injured 84 this month.
FOUNTAIN: Associated Press
