Water main rupture cuts supplies to about 17 thousand in Luchegorsk

About 17 thousand residents of Luchegorsk in Russia's Primorsky region lost cold water supplies after an infrastructure failure, the regional emergencies department said.

The outage affected 99 apartment buildings, 64 private houses and nine socially important facilities, according to the department. Its crisis management centre received the report on Monday morning.

The Pozharsky municipal district administration attributed the failure to a ruptured water main. Four repair workers and a vehicle were deployed to the site.