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About 15 people were injured when a floor collapsed during a film shoot in the Leningrad Region
An ambulance outside a hospital building, file photo for illustration purposes.
The incident, which occurred at one of the training grounds in the village of Tolmachevsky in the Luzhsky District of the Leningrad Region, became known on Sunday, October 13.
According to the film's director, Karen Gevorkyan, he was at the epicenter of the incident together with his cameraman, but was not injured.
Meanwhile, medical assistance is needed, as the operator of the Telegram channel "112" noted regarding Gevorkyan. The first to contact the victims were doctors working on the set. Additional ambulance crews also arrived at the scene.
Initially, it was reported that seven people were injured in the collapse, three of them seriously, but by 15:50 Moscow time the number of victims had risen to 15. Tkachuk, the star of the TV series "The King and the Jester", was detained at Pulkovo.