It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of emergency services in the region.
“The deterioration of the dam’s body is considered the main version of the destruction of the dam on the Ceiba River,” the source said.
Earlier it became known that the number of victims of the dam breakthrough increased to 12.
The Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss and the head of the regional head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Rechitsky, the regional prosecutor Mikhail Savchin flew to the place where the dam broke.
October 19 at 02:00 (Moscow time) in the vicinity of the village of Shchetinkino, Kuraginsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory on the Seiba River, the dam of the technological reservoir of the gold mining artel was destroyed. A criminal case was opened on the fact of the death of people as a result of the incident.