Ulagansky and Kosh-Agachsky districts of the Altai Republic were cut off from Gorno-Altaisk due to rockfall on the R-256 “Chuysky Trakt” federal highway. In this respect TASS said the head of the region, Oleg Khorokhordin.
“In the Ulagan and Kosh-Agach regions, the necessary fuel, food, medicine and basic goods are supplied and the functioning of all related services is ensured,” he said.
Khorokhordin’s press spokesman, Mikhail Maksimov, announced that more than 30 thousand people live in these two regions.
It was previously reported that there was a group of climbers in North Ossetia. hit under a rockfall. A group of 11 tourists were climbing the potentially active Kazbek stratovolcano. At an altitude of about 3.1 thousand meters, climbers were covered by a rock avalanche. A woman was seriously injured as a result of a rockfall. The climbers were helped by employees of the Ministry of Emergencies.
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