Seven Volgograd blast victims evacuated to Moscow for treatment

Russia December 31, 2013, 0:42

MOSCOW, December 31, 0:00 /ITAR-TASS/. Seven people injured in the Volgograd terrorist acts are being evacuated to Moscow, Alexei Vagutovich, the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry information department, told Itar-Tass.

“An Ilyushin-76 belonging to the Russian Emergencies Ministry has left Volgograd for Moscow with seven patients onboard,” he said.

The plane is going to land at the Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow from where the injured will be taken to Moscow hospitals.

Vagutovich clarified that two men and five women would undergo treatment in Moscow.

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