Almaty citizens offer help to owners of burnt apartments

Almaty citizens are offering aid to the owners of the apartments that burnt in the petrol tank truck explosion, Tengrinews.kz reports. According to head of educational work of the linguistics gymnasium No.36 located near the accident site, people are bringing over bags of different things for the fire victims. “Yes, people (willing to help) are coming. We have prepared several classrooms to accommodate the victims. However, not a single person has turned in for any help so far,” he said. Meanwhile, according to the guard of school No.25, also located near the site, Kazakhstan citizens are coming to the school to offer help to the victims. Some of them offer clothes, beds, disposable dishes and money. But there are no victims in this school either. The accident site is still under control of the law-enforcement authorities that are protecting the apartments from possible pillaging. According to police, the tents installed for the victims remain empty, as all victims have evidently gone to their relatives and friends. The damaged power line is being restored at the crossing of Seifullin and Kabanbai Batyr streets. The sidewalk and the road have been cleaned up and the burnt trees were cut down. Almaty citizens are bringing flowers and setting candles at the place where the 27-y.o. driver of the petrol tank lorry died. “We are working in a nearby bakery. We saw the truck burning but didn’t see how it all happened. This is such a tragedy: somebody lost a son and someone lost the father. I consider him a hero. They say he might have been drunk. But he obviously wasn't drunk as he way trying to steer the truck away from the people,” Aissulu Tleubayeva said when she came to the accident site with her colleagues. “It is high time to sue the Chinese companies that manufacture the poor quality trucks. This is not the first case,” another woman said. By Daniyar Bozov