By Eliza Popova
About 400 rescuers, employees of different units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, defense forces, as well as helicopters of the border service were involved. The rescue operation involves about 400 people and two border police helicopters. In the village of Glol Municipality, the Mobile Headquarters of the Georgian Service for Emergency Management was organized. Rescuers evacuated 210 people from the shift area.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, four more dead were found in the afternoon, August 4, so the number of victims increased to 11 people. The transmission lines have been damaged in the region, roads and bridges are destroyed, and communication works with interruptions. The shift destroyed all the tourist sites at the resort and distorted the infrastructure.
According to the locals, some of the mountain simply broke and fell asleep several tourist kotetzhi - everything happened so fast that people did not have time to escape. According to the Department of Ecology, the catastrophe at the resort of Shovi happened because of the coincidence of geological and hydrometeorological events at the same time, in one place. However, there is no threat of repeated shift.
Georgia President Salome Zurabishvili expressed deep sadness due to the tragedy that happened in the Shovi. On August 7, the country was declared a day of mourning. Shovi is a resort settlement in the high mountain region of Racha Lechhumi and Quomos, in the Ons municipality in the West of Georgia. The resort is located at an altitude of 1. 5 thousand meters above sea level.
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