There are more than 5000 tourists in the mountains of the North Caucasus now, including more than 400 children, the head of the North Caucasian Regional Emergency Center Nikolay Lityuk stated during a conference call.
''The group created by EMERCOM allows to provide safety,'' Tass cites him as saying.
Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov ordered all areas with high avalanche danger to be kept under special monitoring, as well as to restrict the movement of people due to the threat of avalanches.
