SARATOV, Mar 15 Local authorities are investigating who was involved in transporting people in a tractor bucket across a flooded river in the village of Ulyanovka, Kuznetsk district, Penza region, said Elena Krylova, deputy head of the administration of the Yevlashevo workers' settlement.
Earlier in the public «Overheard in Kuznetsk» on the social network «VKontakte» there was a video showing six people standing in a tractor bucket, after which the bucket rises and the tractor reverses water, which blocked the road for several tens of meters. In the message to the video, it is specified that this is how people are transported in Ulyanovsk.
«This incident happened on Monday… There was a river, it rained heavily all night and it overflowed. «, as the old-timers say, this did not happen. We did not expect it either … Someone probably decided to take a ride. Now we are finding out who exactly did this, we cannot yet say which of the tractor drivers,» the agency's interlocutor said.
According to her, the incident occurred before 10.00 Moscow time on Monday. “We received a message that people could not get across. It was approximately at 10 o’clock (in the morning). I sent a message to the head (of the administration of the village), the head of the Kuznetsk district, both heads left for the place. At that time, a bus had already been organized, and transported the population from one coast to another already by bus. While we did not know this, somehow it (transportation on a tractor) happened, «Krylova noted.
She explained that the bus worked from about 11.00 to 15.00 Moscow time on Monday, after which the river returned to its course. «This went on until 15.00, then the water subsided abruptly, and everyone was already crossing this river. We already have it up to the ankle … It spilled for the first time in all these years,» the agency's interlocutor added.