Overview
- The snow mass hit the Aginskoye gold deposit in Kamchatka’s Bystrinsky District and carried a drilling rig about 70 meters.
- A 39-year-old machinist from a contractor crew was recovered without signs of life, while a 29-year-old assistant remains missing.
- Searches that paused overnight resumed with two Emergency Ministry specialists on site equipped with probes and transceivers.
- Roughly 20 company personnel are engaged at the scene, with rescuers providing instruction and coordinating operations.
- Regional prosecutors opened an industrial-safety review, and investigators began a procedural check, with the workers identified as employees of the Areal mining and metallurgical company.