‘Car exploded!’ Witness video shows fire in Krasnoyarsk
A witness on a scooter captured video of a Lada car exploding on Komsomolsky Avenue in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, reporting two loud bangs.
Jul 30, 2026 0
Firefighters work to extinguish a burning car on Komsomolsky Avenue in Krasnoyarsk.
Source:
A car exploded at 3 Komsomolsky Avenue in Krasnoyarsk (Russia), a reader of NGS24.RU said.
A witness recorded the car explosion while passing by on a scooter.
Источник:
«Look, Dimon, the car just exploded,» the reader says in a video sent to the newsroom at 19:49 (audio was removed at his request).
According to him, he was passing by (apparently on a scooter) when the Lada «just exploded.» The reader heard two bangs. In the sent video, several firefighters are extinguishing the car. A fire truck, according to the reader, was standing to the left but did not appear in the frame.
The press service of Russia«s EMERCOM, however, told the correspondent that they were not aware of the incident at least at the time the news was being written.
Cars have periodically caught fire on Komsomolsky Avenue in Krasnoyarsk in the past, and not far from this location, according to archival news from NGS24.RU. For example, in July 2020, a Nissan caught fire at the intersection with Yastynskaya Street, and in September of the same year, someone set a car on fire at 3zh Komsomolsky Avenue.
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