The roofs of two sports facilities collapsed in Tatarstan and Udmurtia. In Kazan, a part of the Iskander football and rugby arena collapsed, and in the Udmurt village of Yakshur-Bodya, the roof of an ice rink collapsed.
The sports committee of Kazan told BUSINESS Online that the side structure of the facade was destroyed. “The preliminary reason is the large volume of snow, the difficulty in its operational cleaning due to the design features and insufficient fixing,” the statement says.
Currently, work is underway to eliminate the accident. No casualties have been reported.
As BUSINESS Online specified, the arena is on the balance sheet of the Volna municipal school. It opened at the end of 2019. The customer of the work was the Main Investment and Construction Department of Tatarstan, and the contractor was Altyn Group. The opening ceremony was attended by the former head coach of "Rubin" Kurban Berdyev. Players of FC Nefis, the Kazan amateur football league, the youth team of Rubin and the rugby club Strela train in the building.
“Information [about the collapse of the facade of the arena] has not been received,” RBC was told in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Tatarstan.
The Roman prosecutor's office found those responsible for the collapse of the escalator with CSKA fans Football In Udmurtia, the roof of an ice rink collapsed due to snow, RBC was told in the Republican Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee. “A pre-investigation check on the fact of the collapse has been organized,” the report says.
The incident took place in the village of Yakshur-Bodya. The roof of the skating rink, which is a metal structure under an awning, collapsed. “At the time of the collapse, the skating rink was closed, there were no casualties,” investigators said.
The head of the administration of the Yakshur-Bodyinsky district, Andrey Lekontsev, said on VKontakte that the roof of the ice rink, which was opened five years ago, fell on the morning of February 23. “In the near future, a commission will be created to identify the causes of the collapse of the structure, which will determine the possibility and timing of restoration,” he wrote. According to him, there were no casualties as a result of the incident.
bbabo.Net