Russians die in great numbers in Moscow

449 people died in Moscow over the last day, which is 4,5 times more than usual. 5,155 Muscovites died in July.

Heat and smog are literally killing Muscovites. City's morgues are packed with corpses, queues of Russians, burying their relatives, could be seen in cemeteries.

Statistics is appalling. 1,560 people died in Moscow in the period of 1 to 15 July. This is more than usual for a fortnight, but not much. However, in the second half of the hottest month for 140 years, the number of deaths increased more than twice - 3,595 Russians died.

An absolute record of mortality, 449 Russians, has been established in Moscow on August 8. If such death rate continues, more than 13 thousand Muscovites could die from heat and smog in one month.

- We are shocked by such numbers, but they are true, told the head of one of the capital's ambulance stations. - These data was supposed to be kept secret. Heat and smog have killed 2,213 people in 8 days of August. People with chronic illnesses and the elderly are mostly at risk, but many people of middle age also died.

Tense situation is in the Moscow morgues. The situation worsened especially on Friday, when an air pollution record was beaten in Moscow. 5-6 times more corpses than usual were brought to some morgues.

- The number of dead bodies delivered to us sharply increased due to an increase in mortality, said a worker in the morgue of Hospital # 57. - Usually 5-6 corpses are bought a day, and today we had 12 corpses in twelve hours.

- We have simply a terrible situation here! Refrigerators are full, said a worker at Hospital # 59. - Yesterday, we had 17 corpses, a day before 17 corpses, although we usually have only 2 to 3 corpses a day. The corpses are lucky being in refrigerators, but we have no air-conditioner, even a crummy fan we don't have.