MOSCOW, January 09, SPA -- A natural gas blast ripped through an apartment building in Russia's Tatarstan region early Wednesday, killing at least two people and leaving othersfeared trapped beneath the rubble, officials said. The explosion brought down an entire section of thethree-storey brick building in Tatarstan's capital, Kazan. Russian television showed footage of the ruins _ a jaggedremnant of a wall and a pile of rubble with smoke or steamwafting into the frigid air. One woman was found dead in the rubble and one of twopeople hospitalized, also a woman, died several hourslater, Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman ViktorBeltsov said. He said about 11 people could be trappedbeneath the rubble.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/516035