Bastrykin instructed to report on the progress of checking water pollution in Kamchatka

"The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia instructed the head of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Kamchatka Territory to report on the progress of the procedural check on the fact of the mass death of marine animals in the Pacific Ocean," the message says.

Earlier, investigators began checking in connection with the death of marine animals in Kamchatka.

In turn, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Plenipotentiary of the President in the Far East Yuri Trutnev instructed to promptly eliminate water pollution in Kamchatka.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kamchatka Territory, pollution with oil products and phenols was detected in three more areas of the Avacha Bay. Rosprirodnadzor organized a raid in connection with reports of water pollution.