Medical assistance was provided to 23 victims of the collapse of the filming set of the film “Vasily Terkin”, which takes place in the Luga district, in the León region. This was reported by the regional administration on its Telegram channel.
“Medical assistance was provided to 23 people. In most cases, injuries are bruises and abrasions. “A woman was hospitalized in moderate condition with fractures of both bones in her leg,” — the administration clarifies.
According to the regional health committee, two ambulance teams from Luga hospital immediately left to help the victims.
“The first team took a patient to the emergency department, she was hospitalized. “The second team stayed behind to provide medical assistance to the victims at the scene.” — reported on the committee’s telegram channel.
The committee noted that 19 people sought medical help on their own, nine of whom were minors. None of them required hospitalization.
The film’s director was also among the victims. Karen Gevorkyan. He spoke about the circumstances of the incident to the “Rise” portal.
“There were no collapses. We had a stop built and with it a platform, which consisted of seven or eight sections. Yesterday we worked and nothing happened there, the floor there was made of wood. Today, on the last day of filming and in the last frame, apparently there was some kind of emotional jolt among the extras, several people jumped, and a separate section, which was at a height of 1.6 meters from the ground, fell cleanly next to it. with the people”, – explained the director.
According to him, a cameraman and other participants in the filming process were with him on this platform.
“That is to say, there is no catastrophe, there is an emergency that for me is very unpleasant. Maybe the nails didn’t hold, or maybe something else. It’s sad that this happened. We acted pretty quickly and took everyone to the emergency rooms. The floors didn’t break, the cars didn’t derail, they didn’t tip over into the abyss, no one blew anything up. “We will monitor the situation until the end until everyone is healthy.” – Gevorkyan concluded.
