Disaster in the Moscow metro: 21 deceased, 160 victims

In Moscow, as a result of the gathering from the rails of three wagons of tunnel meters near the Slavyansky Boulevard station, 21 people died. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the head of the Ministry of Health Veronika Skvortsova.

Earlier, Skvortsova spokesman Oleg Sagalai told Interfax about 161 victims. 139 victims were hospitalized in the capital's hospitals, 42 of them are in serious condition.

So far, not all bodies of the dead are raised to the surface. "The seven dead were transferred to the investigating authorities and are in the lobby, six more people are in the first car, in the second car there are six bodies of the dead," said earlier a representative of the Ministry of Emergencies at a selector meeting.

One of the wagons was very deformed. Rescuers used hydraulic tools to free people. To date, the car has been unlocked, the evacuation of the victims has been completed.

Mourning will be announced on Wednesday in Moscow, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin. He noted that the perpetrators in the disaster will be punished, including criminal, after the causes of what happened. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Article 263.1 of the Criminal Code (violation of requirements in the field of transport security). The head of the Moscow Metro Ivan Besedin interrupted the vacation and returns to Moscow.

“Unfortunately, it will not be possible to quickly restore movement on the branch. I think that, according to preliminary estimates, the restoration of this metro branch will take one and a half to two days,” said Sobyanin. According to him, until the consequences of the crash, special buses for the transportation of passengers will run.

The accident occurred at 8:39, in the morning hour, the peak in the tunnel about 200 meters to the Slavyansky Boulevard station. As a result, trains were interrupted. The Slavyansky Boulevard and Victory Park are closed to the entrance, passengers were taken out of the stations.

Passengers are offered to use the ground transport or the Filevsky line of the subway for detour. For the transportation of passengers from Kievskaya to "Youth" 150 buses and free taxis were sent.

Recently, the largest accident in the Moscow subway occurred on the morning of June 5, 2013. In the metro tunnel between the "Okhotny nearby" and "Lenin library" the power cable caught fire . The fire was extinguished in less than an hour. 4,500 people evacuated from the nearest stations and from stopping trains due to smoke. The evacuation of people who were on trains on the stage lasted more than an hour. Some passengers had to go to the stations on foot on the tunnel. The movement of trains between the Komsomolskaya and Park of Culture stations was discontinued, and the transitions to the central stations of the Sokolnichesky line were closed. Later, traffic throughout the branch was stopped.

"As a result of the fire in the Moscow Metro, 78 people turned to medical assistance, including one child. Medical care on outpatient conditions was provided to 54 patients, 24 injured by ambulance crews (17 with a poisoning of combustion products and seven with exacerbation of diseases due to a sharp reaction to stress) were hospitalized," the press service said in a statement of the press service Ministry of Health.