Aleksey Pesoshin: The most important thing is to remove rubble and render all necessary help to the injured in fire at Admiral shopping center

On March 12, Tatarstan first deputy Prime Minister – Chairman of the Tatarstan commission for emergency situations and fire safety Aleksey Pesoshin set the task to finish removing rubble and render all necessary help to the injured in the fire at Admiral shopping center that happened in Kazan on March 11.

Pesoshin informed that the control center is operating 24 hours and the main task now is to organize work to search for people lost in rubble.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov gave task to render financial help to the injured. Families of the dead will receive 1 million roubles, and the injured - 200-400 thousand roubles. Free medical aid will be rendered to foreign citizens who got injured in the fire. Families of foreign citizens will get compensation of costs for transportation of the bodies of the dead.

Aleksey Pesoshin held a meeting of the commission on emergency situations and fire safety at Admiral shopping center today.

The head of the Volga regional emergency centre Igor Panshin, Secretary of the Tatarstan Security Council Airat Shafigullin, and head of the Tatarstan emergency situations ministry Rafis Khabibullin took part in the meeting.