If so, it might blast a hole in the public accounts even bigger than the one patched up by this week's hasty repairs.

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Around 3, 000 buildings were damaged by the blast, which blew a hole in the walls of a metals factory in Chelyabinsk, approximately 900 miles east of Moscow.

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The blast knocked out the front of the building, and he stepped through the gaping hole.

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