SYUKEYEVO – Russia has said there is little hope of finding any more survivors after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga river on Sunday, killing as many as 128 people, in Russia’s worst river accident in 30 years.
Eighty people were rescued after the Bulgaria, a double-decked river cruiser built in 1955, sank 3km from shore in the river in Tatarstan.
Emergency situations minister Sergei Shoigu told President Dmitry Medvedev that little hope remained of finding survivors. As many as 60 of the passengers may have been children. Survivors said some 30 children had gathered in a room near the stern to play just minutes before the sinking. – (Reuters)