As the law enforcement officers established, a seventeen-meter-long cut branch fell on him. The injured man was discovered by a forester who was conducting a tour of the site – he called the medics to the scene. However, despite all efforts, the doctors failed to save the patient’s life.
On November 29, the police received information about a man who was taken to one of the hospitals in the Stryi district with a severe head injury in the morning. Despite the efforts of the medics, around 1:00 p.m. the patient died from his injuries.
To establish the circumstances of the event, the investigative and operative group of police department No. 2 of the Stryi district police department was involved. Law enforcement officers established the identity of the deceased – he turned out to be a 48-year-old resident of the city of Mykolaiv, Stryi district.
It was also established that he suffered a head injury during illegal felling of trees in the forest area – a seventeen-meter-long cut branch fell on him. Later, the man was discovered by a forester who was conducting a tour of the area – he called a medical team to the scene.
According to the fact, the investigators of the territorial unit of the police opened criminal proceedings under part 1 of article 115 (Intentional murder) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with the note “accident”.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police