About the deaths of men aged 42 and 48 reported In the regional administration of the state emergency service.
“On December 4, at 6:26 p.m., gas service employees received a report of a landslide in an underground gas pipeline during emergency work. Two men born in 1981 and 1975 ended up under the earth’s crust. The event took place on the street. Shevchenko, Kharkiv city,” reads the message. .
Employees of the gas service carried out emergency work on the medium pressure gas pipeline.
“While fixing the clamps on the pipe, a landslide occurred. Two people fell asleep two and a half meters deep. It took rescue workers about an hour to recover bodies from the rubble,” said Yevan Vasilenko, spokesman for the regional emergency service.
Two workers were reported dead Confident In the Kharkiv city branch of “Gazmerezhi”.
“Today, December 4, gas service employees in the Kharkiv area experienced a landslide during emergency work on an underground gas pipeline. Two specialists of the Kharkiv city branch, unfortunately, died, found under a layer of earth. The circumstances of the tragic outcome are being investigated,” the company’s message on Facebook reads.
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