According to the Emergency Situations Management Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a search-and-rescue operation was carried out continuously throughout the night with special lighting in the disaster zone.
According to them, fire-rescuers of the Emergency Situation Management Service have been conducting rescue operations in Oni municipality for the fifth day.
"Two border police helicopters resumed their work in the morning. Police units, a group of cinologists of the Emergency Situations Management Service, employees of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Infrastructure's Roads Department are involved in the work. Drones and special equipment are working on the ground.
18 bodies have been found by the rescuers so far," reads the information.