"Injuries incompatible with life": the death toll in a fire in a children's camp in the Khabarovsk Territory increased to four

The number of victims of the fire in the children's camp “Holdomi” in the Khabarovsk Territory increased to four people, all of them are children.

“Two girls have passed away. Injuries incompatible with life, ”Nadezhda Tomchenko, a spokeswoman for the regional government, commented on the situation. Later, she also reported the death of the last child remaining in intensive care.

According to eyewitnesses, this boy helped to take the children out of the camp and pulled the girls out of the tents, in the process he received severe burns and fell into a coma.

The total number of victims at the moment is 12 people, among them seven children. Two children are currently in Komsomolsk-on-Amur hospital with burning products poisoning, another child with superficial burns has already been discharged.

It is worth noting that the Minister of Health of Russia Veronika Skvortsova took control of the case - she will personally supervise the provision of the necessary medical assistance to the victims.

In connection with the death of children, the authorities of the Khabarovsk Territory decided to declare a three-day mourning from July 24. “Families of the dead will receive 1 million rubles each. Now the government of the region is preparing all the necessary documents for this, ”the administration official said.

First detentions

In addition, it became known about the detention of two suspects in the case of a fire in the camp.

“The director of the commercial organization that owns the children's health camp“ Holdomi ”(founder and director of Extreme Service LLC Vitaly Burlakov) and the director of this camp Maxim Kuznetsov are detained,” the statement said on the website of the Investigative Committee. They are being interrogated at the moment.

It is worth noting that before this, Maxim Kuznetsov had time to comment on the circumstances of the fire that had occurred. In an interview with amurmedia.ru, he stated that the camp had passed all the necessary checks and had all the necessary permits. “There were scheduled inspections, documents were issued for the arrival of 450 children. Visits (inspection. - RT ) were before the opening of the children's shift, and after. Pozhnadzor was here for three months, conducted its planned and unscheduled inspections. Both in May, and in June, and even in July, ”he said.

The criminal case over the incident has already been transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

It is also reported that Bastrykin demanded that the investigation establish the circle of perpetrators and find out the causes of the tragedy.

The investigating authorities have already promised to check the actions of officials from the supervisory authorities, who were supposed to deal with security in Holdmi.

“The investigation within the framework of the investigation will thoroughly check the officials of the control and supervisory bodies responsible for ensuring the safety of children in the country camp for signs of negligence in their actions (inaction),” said Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative of the IC of Russia.

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Large-scale checks are being prepared

According to the head of the Emergency Situations Ministry Evgeny Zinichev, the department is preparing to conduct unscheduled inspections of children's health camps and other recreation centers. At the same time, he emphasized that inspections should not "have the character of examination on a formal basis." As noted by Zinichev, “it’s not possible that an evacuation exercise was conducted and no one paid attention to the whole tent camp.”

At the moment, Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev has already announced checks.

“In the Krasnodar Territory, absolutely all camps will be checked out of plan. The tragic events in the Khabarovsk Territory in the tent camp showed that we are not always ready for emergency situations. But when it comes to children's lives, there can be no compromise. I express my condolences to the families of the dead children - this is the worst thing that can be for the parents, ”he said.

In turn, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev criticized the work of the regional authorities, in particular, the Khabarovsk Territory Governor Sergey Furgal.

“Look, the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Furgal, said:“ Nobody knew that there was a camp, that it was private. ” What does it mean? Whose duty is to know? What is this statement from the governor? ”The prime minister commented on a recent official statement that the regional authorities were not aware of the functioning of the camp.

Medvedev noted that if nobody knew about the camp, this means that the administration does not perform its duties well.

He instructed to understand the situation and at the end of the test to report on the results.