Accidents and disasters in the first month

Society
en_khuder@montsame.mn
2016-03-03 17:28:39

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In January of this year, five people died and 216 heads of livestock and animals were lost due to 383 disasters and accidents.

There were 357 construction fires, seven cases of rabies and nine cases of smallpox of sheep. Amount of a damage caused by the fires in buildings reached 1.2 billion Togrog. Some 20 million Togrog went to eliminating the disasters and accidents' consequences.

Four people died due to the fires in buildings, one--due to a disaster in a small mine.

In the period, a number of lost animals and pets increased 47 heads against the previous year. Some 80% of all the animals were lost due to diseases.

The number of the disasters and accidents declined in the first month of 2016 by 134 against the year 2015.