The Migration Agency under Uzbekistan’s Cabinet of Ministers confirmed the flight and said transport and burial costs come from state funds. A collective prayer was held at a Nizhnekamsk mosque before departure, according to the press office of the head of Tatarstan. Neither side published a manifest, a flight, an airport or the names.
The agency deferred. The amount will be known after the Russian investigation concludes. One sentence ties an Uzbek payment to a Russian procedure, and postpones it for as long as that procedure runs.
Kazan moved on Wednesday. Liliya Galimova, spokesperson for the head of the republic, said the first Nizhnekamsk payments had begun. The scale set by the Tatarstan cabinet is 2 million roubles for each death, divided equally among family members, 600,000 for severe or moderate injury and 300,000 for minor injury. Nothing published states whether foreign families qualify, in either direction. The money started moving on the day the bodies left, and nobody in Kazan joined the two on the record.
The toll was itemised for the first time on Wednesday. Of the 13 dead: a five-year-old girl in a residential building; nine people at a workers’ hostel, eight Uzbek and one Tajik; and three Russian citizens employed by a subcontractor, who were inside the industrial zone but, the city authorities specified, not on the enterprise’s own territory. That last clause does careful work.
The injury figures move the other way. Tatarstan’s health ministry counted 27 in hospital on Wednesday afternoon, up from 25, after two outpatients were admitted; four are severe but stable and two moderate. The eight-in-grave-condition figure that has been circulating belongs to Tuesday.
The money started moving on the day the bodies left, and nobody in Kazan joined the two on the record.
Dushanbe has revised its own count three times in three days, from none to two to three. Saijon Shafizoda of the foreign ministry’s information department said on Wednesday that two of the injured have been discharged and one has left intensive care, and named the dead man as Ramazanali Basirov, 30, from Sughd. At midday the ministry said his repatriation papers were still being prepared. In the afternoon TASS reported that the bodies of all foreign citizens had gone home on special flights, naming no flight and citing no Tajik confirmation. The two accounts have not been reconciled.
Achilbay Ramatov, the deputy prime minister who has headed Uzbekistan’s commission since 10 August, has not been quoted once. Khovar and Avesta, Dushanbe’s state outlets, carried none of this on Wednesday.