In Kazan, 12 adults and 6 children were rescued from a stopped Ferris wheel.
In Kazan, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations are trying to rescue visitors to the local Ferris wheel from captivity. People were riding it on Saturday night when a power outage caused the steering to stop and trapped people in cabins at high altitude. This was reported by the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Tatarstan.
"A message was received about the stoppage of the driving wheel at the Ferris wheel attraction on Petah Amirkhan St., 1E. Fire crews from PSCh 48 and rescuers from ZPSO No. 2 of the Search and Rescue Service of the Republic of Tatarstan were dispatched to the scene," the department reports.
Firefighters and rescuers have already rescued 18 people from the height, six of them children. At the same time, 17 people managed to go down the fire ladder installed in the cabins. Another person was evacuated from the cabin using a rope descent device.
Rescue efforts continue as experts try to open the propulsion mechanism to manually move the rudder and get the remaining people off.