Emergency doctor: “We were to rescue people!”

“We arrived to the blast site at about 1 a.m. Nothing was explained to us. We just received a report about some accident. There were already about 20 emergency teams from different places at the site.

Everything was taking place very quickly. Many people were shouting. They said: “Something has exploded”, about “some screws”, but we were not asking them about many things, we were not talking… We had no time for that in fact… Nobody was interfering or hurrying us. We saw ourselves that there were many injured, and we were to rescue people. Teams that arrived earlier were already working with the gravest cases. At the place of the accident we rendered help to a woman, and then to a young man, both on them had fragment wounds of legs, there were screws in their legs, they were shocked, but their lives were out of danger. The guy was taken to the city hospital No. 6. There were about 10 ambulance cars there already which had arrived from the blast site. We didn’t realize something extraordinary had happened. We just worked. After that we were told in the central traffic control room of the ambulance station not to give interview,” the Charter’97 press-centre was told by an emergency doctor.