Russia: Volga River Boat Tragedy Costs 'More Than 100 Lives' -- The Telegraph
Up to fifty young children are feared to be among the more than one hundred passengers who lost their lives in a tragic river boat accident on Russia’s River Volga on Sunday.
Fifteen minutes before the ageing Soviet-era vessel ‘Bulgaria’ capsized two miles from the nearest river bank, up to fifty children were shepherded into a room on the double-decker pleasure craft for a children’s party. Few of them, if any, are thought to have made it out alive, and one of the adult entertainers reportedly told them to stay where they were until the situation became clearer.
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