 A strong explosion in Makachkala may have been caused by the fall of a Russian missile. In the Russian Makachkala Dagestan, on August 14, a powerful explosion thundered in the building of a car service after which a fire started spreading to a gas station. As a result of the explosion, according to the latest data, 35 people were killed, among them three children, 80 people were injured, 11 were in serious condition. Local journalists in telegram channels write that the explosion occurred due to the fall of a Russian rocket, according to Ukrainian TSN media outlet. They noticed that a large crater had formed at the site of the explosion resembling a rocket's crater. Preliminary analysis suggests that a missile was fired from the side of the Caspian flotilla in a faulty condition which hit this place of refuelling and, plus, detonated on the ground. This can explain that part of the rocket hit the service station and part detonated into the building which is across the road opposite the gas station. The journalists write. Also footage of the first minutes after the explosion was published on the web, on them, an eyewitness speaks with emergency officials and claims that it was the rocket that was the cause. The journalists interviewed residents of neighboring Kaspiysk, located near Makachkala. It is from there that Russian bombers launch missiles towards Ukraine. According to witnesses, before the explosion on August 14, at about 2100, locals heard a noise similar to the sound of rocket launches. Some journalists believe that one of the missiles fired by Russian planes towards Ukraine did not reach the target but fell on Makachkala. On the evening of August 15, the investigative committee of Russia announced that the agency is considering a number of versions of the explosion at a gas station in Makachkala. One of them is a violation of the storage of agrochemicals Radio Liberty writes. According to investigators on August 14, at about 10 o'clock in the evening, a fire broke out in the car service building during car maintenance. The fire spread to a neighboring building, which could store flammable fertilizer as a result of which an explosion occurred. The 600 square meter fire was extinguished only four hours later.