On September 13, Minsk /BelTA correspondent/. A K-701 tractor overturned into a melioration canal in the Vitebsk region near the village of Rubezh, Beshenkovichi district, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Emergency Situations informed a BelTA correspondent. Upon arrival at the scene, the Ministry of Emergency Situations employees established that the tractor, belonging to a private agricultural unitary enterprise, had driven into the canal and overturned during field work due to an error by the tractor driver-machinist. As a result, the tractor driver was trapped in the cabin. Ministry of Emergency Situations workers rescued the man using hydraulic emergency rescue tools. The injured man was taken to the hospital by an ambulance team with a diagnosis of fractured ribs and compression of the right arm. -0-

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