Sunday, July 22, 2007

Government Hiding the Truth About Lviv Accident?

The management of department working on the scene of the accident in Lviv region forbids people to walk about in respiration masks not to spread panic among the public.

This is the information from the spot by Komsomolska Pravda in Ukraine.

According to the publication, the nerves of people who stay in the camp are “on edge”. Commanders lose their temper and shout at their subordinates. The correspondent saw himself how the officer scolded one of the rescuing girls for putting on a respiration mask.

“The management forbids people to walk about in masks not to spread panic among the public. They say it’s because TV journalists are working here and broadcasting everything! And nobody is thinking about our health,” she said later.

Militiamen also take off their masks as soon as a car with a government or state license plate stops by them.

Meanwhile, according to the publication, Busk district “is almost dead”. House windows are closed and blinds are locked. One cannot even see dogs and cats in the yards.

Only old people refused to leave their homes. All the youth departed on the day of the accident.

“I do everything possible to evacuate senior citizens. But they do not want to go,” said the head of Ozhydiv village council Oleksandra Shakh.

According to her words, the administration had “to literally fight for” the buses from district administration to evacuate the majority of the population: the officials claimed that they had obtained an order “from up there” not to spread panic.

Besides, regardless of the claims of government representatives that doctors have already visited all the yards of Busk district to provide help for those who need it old people said that doctors did not come to them.

“They say on the TV that we were all given respiration masks. But it is not true!” said one of the district residents on the following day after the accident.

“They tell us not to worry but we do not believe them. We see how poisonous smoke continues to ruin the entire neighborhood. I’ll be honest: if I weren’t the head of the village council I would have left long ago,” noted Ms. Shakh.

The publication also notes that the representatives of Kazakhstan company which loaded phosphorus who arrived at the scene of accident refused to make any comments.

According to the acting head of Lviv region state administration Valeriy Pyatak, common Ukrainian-Kazakh commission is developing a plan to transport tanker cars – each one separately. To do this, it is necessary to build a branch line near the spot of the disaster for heavy machinery.

It is planned to cover the tanker cars in a special mixture, to load them on cars and to take them away.

source:www2.pravda.com.ua

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