400 people in Kuzbass were left stranded due to a destroyed bridge.

In the Kemerovo Region, a truck drove onto a temporary wooden bridge over the Kiya River and destroyed it. Four hundred residents of the villages of Tayozhno-Mikhailovka, Tayozhno-Aleksandrovka, and Tuyla in the Mariinsky Municipal District were cut off from hospitals, schools, and grocery stores. To cross the river, they are forced to walk onto thin ice.

The regional investigative committee began check under the article "Negligence".

Local residents report that they are running low on food and are concerned about access to medical care if needed, the Investigative Committee for the Kemerovo Region reports.

This isn't the first time the bridge over the Kiya River has been destroyed. The structure is heavily damaged. suffered In 2017, also by a truck. Traffic was subsequently reopened. In November 2023, the district administration reported that bus service to the villages had been suspended due to the destruction of the bridge supports. Restoration work was planned to begin once the river iced over.