Rescuers found the bodies of all participants of the tour of the underground collectors of the Neglinka River in Moscow. All eight people died, specified in the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
According to RIA Novosti, the body of the last, eighth participant was in the area of the Bolshoi Ustyinsky Bridge. Doctors and police officers are working near the place of his discovery.
TASS reports that the operation to search for the dead has been completed. The youngest of them – two girls – are 15 years old. Another minor victim was a 17-year-old boy. The rest of the dead are 31-63 years old, the Telegram channel Shot adds.
Earlier it was reported that rescuers found the bodies of the victims in the area of Zaryadye Park in Moscow.
The excursion, some of whose participants died, took place the day before. When heavy rain began in Moscow, people were underground. The water rose sharply, the diggers had practically no chance to escape. A company of eight people could be washed away by a stream of water and dragged underground for a distance of about two kilometers, Life noted.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case. The tour organizer is being questioned by investigators. On the eve it was reported that one of the organizers of the deadly excursion in the underground sewers of Moscow managed to leave Russia. According to REN TV, Alexander Kim, CEO of Sputnik, and Alexander Lazovsky, CEO of Avangard, were put on the wanted list in a high-profile case. The latter escaped from the Russian Federation and is presumably in the UAE, the TV channel reports. At the same time, Kim may be in St. Petersburg. Kim, according to preliminary data, was detained in St. Petersburg.
The Sputnik company, which offered tickets for a dangerous tour of Moscow’s underground sewers, had no official registration. At the same time, the organizers of underground tours could not be unaware of the risks to which they exposed their customers. In addition, weather forecasts warned of a high probability of heavy rains, but despite this, the digger instructors did not cancel the planned event. Also, the underground tours of the Sputnik company were not coordinated with the municipal services of Moscow.
Source: Rosbalt
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