In Tashkent, prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case on the incident occurred at the construction site of the Yunusabad metro line.

According to the press secretary of the Prosecutor General’s Office Khayot Shamsutdinov, a criminal case has been instituted under Paragraph “a”, Part 2 of Article 257 and Paragraph “a”, Part 2 of Article 258.

On December 18, in Tashkent during the construction of the Yunusabad metro line, a landslide occurred. A government commission has been set up to study the consequences of the accident. 

According to recent reports, the corpses of six constructors were found under the ruins. Four of them are natives of Samarkand region, two of them are from Kashkadarya.