VLADIKAVKAZ, August 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Ambulances carrying injured from South Ossetia have begun to cross into North Ossetia through the Nizhni Zaramag customs checkpoint, the chief of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s rescue team, Sergei Shchetinin, has told Itar-Tass.
“The situation at the customs checkpoint is strained. A crowd of North Ossetians anxious about the fate of their relatives has gathered there, but no information is available at this point,” he said.
The Emergency Situations Ministry plans to delegate professional psychologists to extend assistance to the injured and to the residents of North Ossetia. So far psychologists have been helping children brought from South Ossetia over the previous several days. Many of them have missing relatives in the besieged republic. The district hospital in the town of Alagir has begun to accommodate patients from South Ossetia. Doctors at the reception say every essential is in place to render medical assistance to patients, including those seriously hurt. Only a very small share of those injured during Georgian bombardments has been brought to North Ossetia, though.
According to the Emergency Situations Ministry some people managed to get to the town of Dzhava on their own. There has been no chance of evacuating injured from Tskhinvali and the ruined villages so far.
North Ossetian women gathered for a rally in Vladikavkaz on Friday to emphatically demand the authorities of the self-proclaimed republic should ask Russia for assistance. People in Vladikavkaz have been receiving pleas for help to their mobiles from relatives in Tskhinvali. According to the messages, the death toll is already estimated at hundreds.
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