The Russian authorities have not yet planned to declare mourning at the federal level for 51 who died at the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerovo region, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian president. According to him, the whole country is already mourning, and it’s not a formal declaration of mourning.
“No, not yet planned. Moreover, there was already mourning in the region, and it is obvious that the point here is not in formal mourning, but in the fact that the whole country is mourning, “Mr. Peskov told RIA Novosti. As a reminder, a three-day mourning period has been declared in Kuzbass on November 26.
According to the latest data, 76 people were injured in the explosion at the Listvyazhnaya mine in Kuzbass, 64 of them are in the hospital. After the accident at Listvyazhnaya, two cases were opened: under Part 3 of Art. 217 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of industrial safety requirements) and part 3 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Negligence”), they were combined into one production. In the case of the tragedy, five people were arrested – the director of the mine, his deputy, the head of the site and two inspectors of Rostekhnadzor.
Read about the accident in the material of Kommersant “Listvyazhnaya did not release the dead miners.”
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