Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Uzbekistan are involved in the search for missing tourists in the mountains of the Turkestan region.

Rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Uzbekistan are involved in the search for the missing tourists in the mountains. They survey the border area from the side of Uzbekistan along the bed of the Ugam River to the place where it flows into the Charvak reservoir. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Talgat Uali.

The search for the missing two tourists in the Sairam-Ugam gorge continues and is complicated by the mountainous terrain and the strong flow of rivers.

Until today, the search was conducted through mountain gorges with a length of more than 350 kilometers. With the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, about 170 kilometers of territory were explored in total.

Aerovisual flights were made by helicopters of JSC "Kazaviaspas" with a length of more than 2 thousand kilometers.

The search and rescue operations involved 218 people, 32 pieces of equipment, 3 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Turkestan region, local executive bodies, the Border Service of the National Security Service, the National Guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Park, the Mountaineering Federation, 2 helicopters of JSC "Kazaviaspas" of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and relatives.

 

 

Press Service of the

 Ministry of Emergency Situations

of the Republic of Kazakhstan