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Russian Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died after he jumped off a cliff trying to save a cameraman who fell during training exercises in the Arctic city of Norilsk, officials and reports said yesterday.
鈥淭he head of the emergencies ministry, Yevgeny Zinichev, tragically died saving a person鈥檚 life鈥 at inter-agency drills in the Arctic, the ministry said in a statement.
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the state-funded news outlet RT, said the 55-year-old minister had died as he tried to save a cameraman who fell off a cliff.
鈥淎bout Zinichev,鈥 she wrote on Twitter. 鈥淗e and the cameraman were standing at the edge of a cliff. The cameraman slipped and fell. Before anyone even figured out what happened Zinichev jumped into the water after the fallen person and crashed against a protruding rock.鈥
It was not immediately clear when the death took place. The cameraman also died.
President Vladimir Putin was notified of the minister鈥檚 death, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Zinichev was a member of the KGB security service in the last years of the USSR and his career took off after he served in Putin鈥檚 security detail between 2006 and 2015.
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