The investigation believes that the cause of the accident could have been the accumulation of coal gases.

As a result of the emergency, people were injured.

They were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.

Criminal cases were opened into the incident.

“The head of the department gave instructions to the acting

Head of the Investigative Directorate of Russia for the Republic of Tyva Glinsky M.V.

submit a report on the progress of the investigation of criminal cases and establishing all the circumstances of the incident,” the message says.

Earlier it became known that after the accident at the thermal power plant, almost a third of the houses in Shagonar were left without heat.