“EVERYONE ACTED QUICKLY”
“Thank God, there were no casualties,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, saying the region’s warning system had helped.
CCTV footage released by the Kamchatka region’s health minister, Oleg Melnikov, showed surgeons holding down a patient on an operating table when the earthquake rocked the area.
Regional governor Vladimir Solodov said on Telegram he would nominate the doctors for state awards, adding: “Such courage deserves the highest praise.”
An expedition group from the Russian Geographical Society was on the Kuril island of Shumshu when the tsunami swept away their tent camp.
“When the wave hit, all we could do was run to higher ground. It’s very difficult to do that in boots on slippery grass and in fog,” group member Vera Kostamo told Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda.
