On the territory of the former military Arsenal of some of the Udmurt Pugachevo continues detonation of shells, told Last news the Commissioner of the Central regional emergency center.

The first data on the state of emergency began to arrive on Wednesday afternoon. From the village to evacuate two thousand people.

it was later announced about transportation to a safe place for the children's sanatorium, which is located ten kilometers from Pugachevo.

before it was declared that the cause of the explosion was a fire of grass in the vicinity of residential settlements.

Pugachev sent two fire convoys, amphibious aircraft be-200 and the rotary-wing machine Mi-8.

To the scene left the head of the Republican government.

Due to the explosions blocked the movement of cars on a plot of Federal highway M-7 "Volga" from a Small Snowstorm to Izhevsk.

This is not the 1st incident with the detonation of ammunition in Pugachevo. The same case happened 7 years ago in the warehouses of the 102nd Arsenal of the Central military district near the village.

Then when extinguishing the fire dead soldiers, one hundred people sought medical help. From the danger zone have been evacuated more than 28 thousand people.

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