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An explosion occured in central Stavropol this evening, RIA Novostireports, citing a source in the territory’s law-enforcment agencies,saying that it is uncertain whether the blast happened in the city’scentral square or at the Palace of Culture and Sport.
Officials in Turkey and Georgia on Wednesday dismissed media reports that a plane crashed on the border between the two states late on Tuesday, reports RIA Novosti.A powerful explosion was heard on Tuesday evening near a village in Turkey's Posof region that borders the Georgian region of Ardakhan. The acting governor of the Turkish region was quoted by media as saying that "the information... leads us to believe that an airplane has crashed.""
A gun attack caused an explosion at a gas pipeline in Hasaviurt,Dagestan, reports the radio station Mayak.The incident, which occurred at around 3.00 PM Moscow Time, saw some15,000 people left without gas supplies.
According to preliminary information, the crash of the tourist bus inTurkey in which 17 people died was a result of the driver’s heartfailure, the official website of Pegas-Touristic (the organizer of thetour) stated, RIA Novosti reports.The bus of Pegas-Touristic was going from Alanya to the tourist centerof Pamukkale on Tuesday. The bus fell off the 15 meter bridge over theAksu River. There were 39 passengers.
Turkish police have not yet announced the cause of a bus crash whichtook the lives of 17 people in southwest Turkey earlier on Tuesday,reports RIA Novosti, citing the consul general in Antalya, MirdjalolHusanov.Russia's Prosecutor General's office will work with the Turkish policeto investigate the crash that killed 15 Russian tourists, and theTurkish bus driver and guide near the Turkish resort city of Antalya.The Russian tourists were en route from the Turkish resort of Alanya
The death toll in a bus crash in southwest Turkey has risen to 17,reports Interfax, citing Russia's Federal Tourism Agency.The bus,which was carrying some 40 Russian tourists, veered off the road andplunged 15 meters into the river Aksu.The Turkish Tourism Ministryannounced that 16 people died at the scene of the crash and one morein a hospital in Antalya.
Russia's Emergency Ministry will send a transport air-plane Il-76 toevacuate the Russian tourists injured in a bus crash in Antalya,reports RIA Novosti, citing the ministry's spokesman, IrinaAndrianova.The airplane is equipped with special medical equipment for emergencyassistance. Fifteen medical specialists and two psychologists willalso be on the flightThe plane will leave Ramenskoe airport at around 3.00 a.m. Moscow Time.Sixteen Russian tourists were killed when the vehicle veered off the road and
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences inconnection with death of 16 Russian tourists in a bus crash at theTurkish resort Antalya, reports Kremlin's press-office.The tourists were killed when the vehicle veered off the road andplunged 15 meters height into the river Aksu, reports RIANovosti.Another 25 people were injured.Medvedev ordered support for the victims of the tragedy and theirrelatives. He also said the Russian authorities will keep track of theinvestigation into the accident.
Two people have died as a result of an agricultural aircraft crash inthe Mediterranean region of Turkey, reports Trend.According to the governor of the city of Mersin, the plane took off atnoon from the airport of the city of Adana. It crashed shortlyafterwards near the village of Avadan for unknown reasons. The pilotwas one of those killed.
Investigators from the prosecutor's office have started investigatingthe collapse of a crossover on the Don M-4 highway in Russia's Adygeyarepublic, RIA Novosti reports citing a spokesman from the republic'spress-service.According to the Ministry of Emergencies, part of M-4 overpasscollapsed in the Teuchezhskiy region on Thursday at 14.00 Moscow time.There were no casulaties.
30 miners have been trapped after a methane explosion in a coal minein northern Turkey, Turkey's labor minister Omer Dincer said onMonday, reports 6news.The Minister also said that rescue teams still haven't reached thesite of explosion, where the miners have been trapped."I was informed that workers had detonated dynamite to open anunderground gallery, and automatic gas devices detected high methanein the mine. After that, the miners stopped working, cut off theelectricity and began waiting.
Almost 16 000 people have been left without gas due to the explosion of a pipe-line in Nazran region of Ingushetia, which occurred on Tuesday, reports RIA Novosti, citing spokesman of the Emergency Ministry. There were no casualties.
An explosion took place in the "Karadon" mine in the Black Sea coastal province of Zonguldak in Turkey. 32 miners are blocked underground, RIA Novosti reports. The governor of the province, Erdal Ata, has reported that the reasons for the explosion are not yet clear. The miners are being looked for at a depth of 540 m.
An explosion occurred at a mine in the Turkish province of Zonguldak,CNN Turk reports.Eight miners have already been rescued. No one has been injured as a result. The reason for the explosion is still unknown.
A Russian ship left Makhachkala for repairs in Baku, towed by the"Tulen-10" tug-boat. The "Kapitan Yevseyev" listed dangerously shortlyafter leaving Makhachkala, the ship's sections were filled with waterand as a result the ship sank.The two-man crew of the ship was taken on board the tug-boat and takento shore. There was no fuel or cargo, no one was injured and noenvironmental damage was caused.
Floodwaters in Azerbaijan have worsened. The emergency headquarters are monitoring the Kura dam breach in the village of Bayramly and the situation in the Sabirabadsk region. The headquarters are headed by Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations Orudjali Gadjiyev, and are located in the village of Garagiune in the Sabirabad region, in the police station. Vice-Premier Abid Sharifov and the head of 'Amelioration and Water Economy' company Ahmed Ahmedzade have arrived at the scene.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan has reportedthreats to cities and regions in the republic after heavy rain andfloodwaters from the rivers Kura and Araks, Trend reports.Some 800 rescue workers have been mobilized, as well equipment. Wateris currently being pumped from a number of locations, includingShirvan on the Kura river, and the administrative center of theSabirabad region.
A dam has been breached on the River Kura, flooding the Bayramlivillage in east Azerbaijan's Shirvan region (100-120 km west of Baku),RIA Novosti reports, citing the ANS TV channel. The situation in theSalyan region also remains critical.The water levels are continuing to rise and approximately 200 staffmembers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations have been mobilized,said the report.The floodwaters are heading to the Sabirabad region, threatening theBaku-Goradiz railroad.
More than 20 people were injured when two passenger trains collided onThursday evening in the Turkish province of Kodjaeli, 80 km fromIstanbul, local media report.According to the Khaber Tiurk TV channel, the trains collided after atrain from Istanbul went off the rail. Several train cars turned over.All the injured were hospitalized and some have severe injuries, RIANovosti reports.
A Russian tourist died during a rafting accident near the westernIranian city city of Eluguderz.Another person was badly injured, Vesti.ru reports.
