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Determined the approximate location of of people remaining under an avalanche in Gabala

05 April 2012 18:15 (UTC +04:00)

Chief of Northwest Regional Emergency Center of Ministry of Emergency Situations Azad Zeynalov told APA that conducted by helicopters and specially trained dogs search had no results.

"However, with the help of the villagers of the area and specially trained dogs were able to determine the approximate place where people came under an avalanche. The detected traces lead to the place where the avalanche occurred. We can assume that stayed under the snow, they were killed. Tomorrow will be involved in searching for up to 50 persons, will be used help the 5 specially trained dogs. With the help of special equipment will try to clear the land of snow height of 8 meters. We hope that tomorrow will be able to find these people", - Azad Zeynalov said.

Representative of executive power in the village of Gabala Vendam Ilham Bagirov told APA that on March 30, residents of this village Mukhtar oglu Karimov Elvin, born in 1991, Nazir Bayramov Tahiroglu, born in 1990 and Mamedov Zakir Gazanfaroglu, born in 1991 in the 6 o’clock in the morning went on hunting in the mountain range located in the area titled "Goc Yaylagi." Since then, they were never seen again. On April 4 parents reported a representative of local authorities about what their children are missing. Only one of the guys had a hunting rifle.

Terrain "Goch Yaylagi" is located 25 kilometers from the village Vyandan at 2,500 meters above sea level. At this time in the area of snow cover thickness is 1 meter. The avalanche covered the 8-meter-thick layer of snow in the area of 450 meters. In this area there were many times avalanches.