Information about this appeared on the department’s Telegram channel.

It is noted that 25 specialists and four units of equipment will be involved at the site of the rock collapse. 

In addition, a Mi-8 helicopter with 13 rescuers from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is flying from the Khabarovsk Territory to the Amur Region.

Also, according to the department, mine rescuers from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations were sent from the Primorsky Territory. 

Earlier, Pokrovsky Mine JSC confirmed the information that there were 13 people in the mine where the rock collapse occurred in the Zeya district of the Amur region.

Also, the Governor of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov said that he had taken personal control of the emergency at the Pioneer mine.