Moscow City Business Center was evacuated in Russia: what happened (photo, video)

Electricity disappeared in one of the business center towers. The elevators that stopped between the floors were blocked. In Moscow, people were urgently evacuated from one of the Moscow City Business Center towers. Electricity has also disappeared in the building, Russian media reported. On Thursday, November 3, at 6:00 pm, three towers of the multifunctional complex "Q-quarter" "Moscow-City" were left without electricity. In the homes, the alarm worked, from there urgently began to evacuate people.

Five elevators ceased to work, four passengers stuck. In social networks there was information that one girl needs medical help: she was injured during a sharp braking of the lift cab. The rest of the people had to go on foot. About 100 people remain in the complex, and in the building of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, people are stuck in an elevator between 24 and 25 floors. All doors are blocked there, rescuers cannot get inside.

In addition, some eyewitnesses reported that a fire had already begun in the business center building. According to the official version, the reason for shutdown of electricity in the IQ-quarter at the Moscow City Business Center was the voltage jump. The incident was indirectly responded by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He suggested the Minister of Economy Maxim Reshetnikov, who is in Moscow-City, report on investments and expressed his hope that the shutdown there during the meeting would not hurt his report. It should be noted that in the IQ-quarter there is a premises of the Treasury of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Economic Development.