A helicopter carrying 16 tourists and crew on a sightseeing trip in Russia's far east crashed into a lake on Thursday, leaving eight people including a child feared dead and two others in serious condition.
This handout photograph taken and released by the Kamchatka regional government, on August 12, 2021, shows Emergency Situations Ministry workers taking part in the rescue operation at the spot where a Mi-8 helicopter crash-landed into Kuril Lake in the Kronotsky nature reserve on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia outside Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Rescuers and divers were dispatched to the scene but they did not have the necessary equipment to begin work at that depth. When staff of the reserve heard a loud “boom”, they said they dispatched two motorboats with four inspectors, who reached the scene in about three to four minutes. “The water temperature in the lake is no more than 5-6 degrees , it is impossible to remain in it for a long time,” the reserve said.One of the survivors, Viktor Strelkin, said that at the time of the accident he was sleeping and woke up when a stream of water hit him in the face.
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