MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- All 17 people killed in a dam collapse in the Kuraginsky district of Russia's Krasnoyarsk region have been identified, local media reported Thursday.
"The relatives have identified all the 17 killed people," the Russian emergency recovery headquarters was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.
A dam collapsed on the territory of a gold mine near the village of Shchetinkino in the Kuraginsky district, causing a flood and the collapse of another four dams. According to the Investigative Committee, the death toll reached 17 on Tuesday and three more people remained missing.
The investigators have initiated a criminal case into the incident on the grounds of violations of security rules.
They discovered the five collapsed dams had been built illegally without any permits in order to divert groundwater at the gold mining site.
