The death toll from the Elbrus accident has risen to three

Investigators have found the body of another person killed in the cable car accident on Mount Elbrus. The death toll in the incident has thus risen to three.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, two people were killed this afternoon when the cable car cable on Mount Elbrus broke. Rescuers had to evacuate other people at the scene in difficult weather conditions. Rescuers later reported that 35 people had been evacuated.

The official Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee of Kabardino-Balkaria reported the third person killed in the cable car accident on Elbrus. According to the agency, investigators and forensic experts have found the deceased, and his identity is being established.

The head of the republic, Kazbek Kokov, confirmed the information about the third fatality. “It became known about one more person who died in the accident on the cable car. His body was found in a small pond after people had been evacuated to the Azau glade,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

The republican department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations previously claimed that there were 37 people on the cable car at the time of the accident, two of whom died, and the rest were evacuated.

One of the fatalities on Elbrus was a 65-year-old former drawing teacher at Gymnasium No. 5 in Tyrnyauz, the second was a 35-year-old tourist from Makhachkala, they were riding in single seats one after another, the Sapa Kavkaz channel notes with reference to its own sources.

Kokov previously stated that the emergency cable car was operated by a private company, Elbrus MKD LLC. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the road "is undergoing routine maintenance from September 3 to 24 in preparation for the winter season."

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