In Ukraine, from the beginning of the year drowned 800 citizens

Such information was recently disseminated by the representatives of the press service of the State Emergency Service of the country. According to these data - only from the beginning of August 2017. In Ukrainian reservoirs recorded the death of 202 citizens. This is about twice as large as it was in the same period in 2016.

And on the whole, 798 people drowned in the water bodies of Ukraine this year, 81 of them. Since the beginning of the year, 509 people have survived on water reservoirs, 112 of them have been children - they were also stressed in the State Emergency Service.

As reported URA-Inform, at the end of July only over the weekend recorded deaths in the reservoirs of 25 people. Such data was previously disseminated in the SDS.