“At 15:30 on Saturday, the Crisis Management Center of the Main Directorate of the EMERCOM of Russia for the KBR received a message that in the Cherek region above the village of Verkhnyaya Balkaria, a group of five people, who had gone to the mountains to hunt the night before, did not return to the established time ", - RIA Novosti leads the message of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region.

It is noted that the Elbrus high-altitude search and rescue team of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the detachment of the Kabardino-Balkarian fire and rescue service are involved in search and rescue operations.

Earlier, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Krasnoyarsk Territory said that two missing persons were being searched for in Taimyr.