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Search and rescue work is complicated by the threat of avalanches, steep slopes, ice, snow cover and lack of mobile communication.
Rescuers searching for tourists who got lost near the summit / photo SES
Yesterday evening, rescuers received a message stating that while passing tourist route, a group of tourists (slope mount Hoverla in the direction of the valley Kozmeschik) injured tourist.
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Just two tourists, a man and a woman. According to preliminary information, they were residents of Odessa, said the state service for emergency situations.
“For search and rescue operations involved two mountain rescue Department and Lazeshchyna Rakhiv town consisting of 11 rescuers and 2 units of special equipment.Search and rescue work is complicated by the threat of avalanches, steep slopes, ice, snow cover and lack of mobile communication in location searches”, – reported in gschs.
As of this morning the searches involved also Vorotynski mountain search and rescue Department gschs of Ukraine in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on February 27, rescuers found two hikers lost in the mountains Hoverla yesterday.