Traffic on the Krimbrug has stopped – a freight train is on fire on the railway bridge and part of the road bridge has collapsed.
The fuel tank is known to be on fire. Reporting in Telegram— the channel advisor to the head of Crimea Oleg Kryuchkov:
“Navigation bows are not damaged. It is still too early to talk about causes and effects. Work is underway to put out the fire.”
Parking spaces for cars that would cross the Crimean Bridge today have already been put into use. With the ferry people can cross to the other side.
“We send the traffic police cars to pack. A platform has been organized on the airport grounds, where we will set up headquarters, tents and toilets,” TASS quotes a message from Kerch Mayor Svyatoslav Brusakov.
According to the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, as a result of the explosions, two spans of the road surface leading from Krasnodar to Kerch collapsed.
“According to visual assessment, one car wire from Kerch to Taman is intact. The ferry service is ready for launch, it will start operating from today. The timetable will be announced later. Now food and heating stations for drivers are being deployed at the entrance of the bridge,” the head of the republic wrote in his Telegram channel.
Causes of the fire on the Krimbrug
According to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC), the cause of the fire and destruction was the explosion of a truck driving past the Crimean Bridge.
“Today at 06:07 a truck exploded on the car section of the Crimean Bridge from the side of the Taman Peninsula, igniting seven fuel tanks of a railway train on its way to the Crimean Peninsula. There was a partial collapse of two car spans of the bridge,” TASS quotes the NAC as saying.
At the same time, the arch over the navigable part of the strait was not damaged and nothing threatens the passage of ships through the strait.
There are no predictions yet for the timing of the Crimean Bridge’s restoration, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He also said that Vladimir Putin has ordered the creation of a government commission related to the Crimean Bridge emergency.
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