"It was a city bomb that everyone opposed," say witnesses about the explosion in Fergana. What more can we learn from their accounts?

A blast in the city of Fergana caused significant destruction. A correspondent from Kun.uz visited the site the day after the incident and spoke with eyewitnesses.

It was revealed that traffic on the road in front of the gas station was restricted.

“We live in a two-story building directly across from the exploded gas station. We opposed the construction of this station when it was being built. But our complaints were ignored. Now ordinary people are suffering. Lives have been lost. Our homes are destroyed.

This gas station was essentially a bomb located in the city center. Everything in our apartment is shattered and burned. I was burned by the flash; half of my hair is singed. There is a suffocating smell of burnt flesh in the house and on the street. After the explosion, we were forced out of our homes into the cold. Now they say there has been another gas leak. Wasn’t it possible to evacuate people to somewhere warm? Our home has been cut off from gas, we can’t cook, and we’re afraid to turn on the lights. Little children are left outside in the freezing winter. The gas station has brought disaster to the people, and we ask our government to relocate all gas stations away from residential areas to prevent such terrible incidents from happening again,” says a local resident.

“Yesterday we were again told that there is still some propane left at the gas station, and that we all must leave our homes. We were forced to go out into the cold with our children, and my youngest child is sick. Why were we left here in the cold without gas and light?” complains a mother of several children.

“When this gas station was being built, local residents wrote collective letters expressing our disagreement to the mahalla and the hokimiyat, but it was built anyway. On the day of the explosion, I was lying on the couch with my granddaughter. Suddenly there was a loud bang, the windows shattered and rained down on us. I got up and tried to leave the apartment, but I fell and don’t remember anything after that; I woke up in the ambulance. Now we’ve been forced out into the cold again; where is the leadership looking? This is just torture,” says the house committee member of the affected building.

“We are in shock; we saw people burning, we saw the dead. We’ve spent the second day in the cold with small children,” says a young woman.

According to residents, the people in the area are in a state of stress, and the incident has particularly affected the children.

Recall that as a result of the explosion of propane at the gas station, which occurred on December 17, 4 people died, including children.

According to Kun.uz, the exploded gas station belonged to a member of the family of the chairman of the State Customs Committee, Akmalhuja Mavlonov.