A memorial service for tourists from Belarus died in the Murmansk region of Russia will be held on Tuesday, March 16, from 09:30 to 11:30 in the Ice Palace in Brest. This was reported in the ideological department of the Brest Regional Executive Committee. The bodies of citizens of Belarus in the special train was taken to Minsk about 15:00 and in the evening they will be delivered to the regional center.
«To date it is unknown where the dead bodies of young people will be buried, as residents of Brest are two of them — Eugene Traskevich and Daria Trotsinskaya, team leader Michael Karpesh lived in the Cherni village, Brest region, and Alexander Kovgan — born in Kobrin,» — according to Brest Regional Executive Committee, informs BelTA.
As previously reported by Telegraf, March 3, Belarusian six-man tourists group arrived in the foothills of Hibin. The group was not registered in the Murmansk search and rescue office, as security measures requires.
March 8, at 2.30 p.m., there was recorded the avalanche in this area. As a result, four tourists were covered by snow, two young men — 1981 and 1989 year of birth — survived.
At the beginning two young people tried to find their comrades by their own forces, but after unsuccessful attempts went to the closest regional center for help, which could reach only by the evening of the ninth of March.
Search operations were complicated because of bad weather. All six are residents of Brest region, including four dead: Karpesh Michael born in 1981, Trotsinskaya Daria (1983), Traskevich Eugene (1986) and Kovgan Alexander (1987).
