The explosion of tanks near Rostov: the wreckage threw it to the sixth floor of the house, the inhabitants panic due to a leakage of poisonous gas

In the fact of the explosion of tanks with a fuel in the Rostov region, the investigating authorities opened a criminal case. Eyewitnesses report that as a result of an emergency in the area there was a leak of toxic gas.

As a result, in the district it became difficult to breathe. Rescuers evacuated the "Houses of the First and Second Line" and are preparing to evacuate another area that is in the lowland, Denis Sribny, a resident of the White Kalita Service Service, told the Russian News Service .

“Initially, people were in a panic, but then the police and the Ministry of Emergencies were evacuated, they told how to act, asked the volunteers to help,” the man told reporters. The Ministry of Emergencies reported that rescuers are taking measures for chemical protection.

According to the data on 22 hours on May 9, 44 people turned to the medical help after the explosion of the wagons, 17 of them were hospitalized, 27 victims were provided with medical assistance, but they did not need hospitalization. Seven people are sent to the Central District Hospital of the Belokalitvensky district and 10-to-burn center of the BSMP N2 Rostov-on-Don. Earlier it was reported that 29 people turned to the help of an emergency, 15 of them were hospitalized.

The National Management Center in the crisis situations of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies announced that the leak of chemicals at the Belaya Kalitva station is not a threat to the population, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the representative of NTsux, all previously evacuated people returned to their homes. "In total, 503 people who returned to their places of residence were evacuated, damaged residential premises are being repaired," the center explained.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations plan to complete work to eliminate the consequences of the accident within two days - by May 11. Now rescuers, inspectors of Rospotrebnadzor and investigators are working on the railway.

Onishchenko knows only about soot from burned oil

However, the Russian Sanitary Service said that it did not have data that, in addition to oil products, there was a leak of dangerous toxic substances from the railway products that have come off the rails. The chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko said that 2,700 people were evacuated from the accident area.

"As for harmful substances - there were oil combustion products. There were tanks with oil and oils. The data that we had tanks with chemicals that are more dangerous in," Interfax quotes Onishchenko. According to the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, in the area of ​​the accident it is necessary and possible to restore the movement of train.

The headquarters reported: the hole from where the gas flowed out was filled with sand

In the operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of an emergency, the agency reported that work interrupted due to the threat of infection with a toxic substance from the tank damaged during the accident continued.

"Currently, restoration work has been resumed. All the necessary measures are being taken to restore routes and waybills. At the same time, there is no threat of a dichlormethan leakage from a tank that has come off the rails," the headquarters said.

The interlocutor of the agency clarified that the leak in the tank, from where dichlormethane flowed, is blocked by a temporary coating of sand and is not dangerous for working at the railway station.

A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the fire and explosion on the railway in the Rostov region. The case was started in the first part of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("Violation of the Rules for the Safety of Traffic and the Operation of Railway Transport"), the Southern Investigation Department of the IC of the Russian Federation said .

The fragments of the tank was thrown in the explosion to the sixth floor

Meanwhile, new details of the night emergency became known. As it turned out, when entering the station, there was a fire of the locomotive (diesel locomotive) of a freight train, an explosion and a gathering of wagons from the rails with the spread of fire in composition.

During the explosion, part of the tank was thrown out and damaged the wall of a residential building at the level of the sixth floor. As a result of the incident, 53 wagons were damaged, of which 12 were completely burned, 41 - have various damage. 16 wagons are practically not damaged.

The number of victims increased to 29

As a result of the incident, according to updated data, 29 people were injured (previously reported 27), 13 of them were hospitalized. The condition of the two victims is evaluated as serious. According to Interfax, there is no threat to the life of any of the victims.

The train consisted of 69 wagons with different loads: forest, steel, non -ferrous metal, rental (scrap metal). In addition, according to the SK, there were tanks with chemicals. The train also transported gasoline, propane, fuel oil, sunflower oil.