The wind tore the roof off St. Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk

October 6, Minsk /BELTA correspondent/. Strong winds today tore off the roof of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk, a duty officer of the Belarusian Ministry of Emergency Situations told a BELTA correspondent. According to him, about 300 sq.m. of the cathedral's roof were damaged by winds with gusts reaching 28 meters per second. The wind also de-energized about a hundred settlements in the Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk, and Mogilev regions. At the same time, according to the duty officer, the Vitebsk region suffered the most.-0-