VLADIMIR PUTIN EXPRESSED THE GUIDANCE OF PORTUGAL CONDOLENCE IN
CONNECTION WITH TRAGEDY








LISBON, 5 March.  / Witali Mirny, korrespondent of the RIA " Nowosti "
/. Sergej Schojgu, disaster control Minister of Russia, who is in
Lisbon, stated Vladimir Putin and the government chairman Mikhail
Kasjanow condolence to the guidance of Portugal in the name of the
president in connection with the tragedy, which had taken place on
Monday early in the north of the country and which cost 77 humans the
life.

The misfortune occurred in the north of Portugal, where one excursion
ion double stick bus and two cars fell down with the bridge collapse
from a height of 50 meters.

Sergej Schojgu is in Lisbon in the context of the work of the mixed
commission for economical, industrielle and technical co-operation of
Russia and Portugal.  He is a chairman of the Russian section of the
commission.