Accident occurs at concert in Urgench

09/08/2015 | Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- An accident occurred during the evening concert at the Park of Culture and Recreation “Yoshlar Koli” (Youth Lake) in Urgench (Khorezm regions) on 8 August 2015, a Governmental Commission said in a statement.

According to the statement, in the result of partial destruction of the lattice railings of the bridge several people fell to the lake. The commission said that a large number of people were on the bridge at the time of the accident. The statemen said there are casualties, but it did not specify the number of victims.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov entrusted to create the governmental commission to study and establish reasons behind the accident, as well as adopt necessary measures to liquidate consequences of the accident.

The commission said that its members are implementing a complex of necessary measures on providing social-material aid to families of the victims and injured persons, as well as studying reasons behind the incident.

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