In the Moscow River partially sank a walking ship

In the Moscow River, Alina Tango's walking ship partially sank. According to preliminary information, oil products leaks also occurred as a result of the incident. “The feed of the ship, standing on the winter, sank about four meters, previously, there were no injured,” a source in emergency services of the capital told RIA Novosti .

According to him, the emergency occurred in the area of ​​N3 house on Kolomenskaya Street. The length of the ship is approximately 30 meters, the width is five meters. "The spill of oil products, according to preliminary data, on an area of ​​100 square meters, the spot is processed with sorbents," the source said.

As the LifeNews channel specifies, the ship was moored near the pier. For the so far the reason, the ship was very tilted, because of which the fuel began to flow out. Rescue services, who arrived at the place, decided to pour a special sorbent into the river, which should absorb all the spilled chemicals. At the bottom of the vessel, a hole was found through which the water got inside, journalists noted.

“There was a flooding and the subsequent roll of a moored private walking boat. There was nobody on the ship, no one was injured,” the Moscow agency was ordered to journalists in emergency services. At the Crisis Management Center of the capital’s department of the Ministry of Emergencies, journalists confirmed the fact of the incident on the water at the specified address.

Meanwhile, in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in Moscow, in turn, the media reports that the ship had sank in the Moscow River in the Kolomensky district. “This information is not true,” the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in Moscow told TASS. The interlocutor of the agency explained that the private walking boat was simply tilted. “He remained moored at the pier,” the Ministry of Emergencies said.

According to the latest data, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies recorded the motor ship "Alina Tango" tagged on the massive concrete unit that was tapped on the Moscow River. In the area of ​​the incident, there is a strong smell of pouring fuel from the side of the river, journalists note. Around the ship, black oil spots are observed.

Flooded in the Moscow River ship "Alina Tango". He was on the winter, no one was injured by Pic.twitter.com/6O3YN28FDA

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Specialists of the City Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection took water samples from the Moscow River. "The samples were taken by our specialists of the Department of Nature Management, the results will be in a week. The ship only tilted, but the water test was taken anyway. It will be fuel or not - the results will be shown," the department said.