The key facts
- The bodies of two fishermen, aged 45 and 34, were found on a tributary of the Khor River in the Lazo district
- In Amursk, a 49-year-old man who may have fallen overboard near CHPP-1 is being searched for; divers made five dives in a day
- Police and investigative authorities are looking into the causes of the boat capsizing
Bodies of two fishermen found
In Khabarovsk Krai, the search for two fishermen whose boat capsized on a tributary of the Khor River has ended. Both were found dead, reports the regional branch of the Russian Emergencies Ministry citing Life.ru.
First tragedy: the Lazo district
According to police, a boat with two men capsized near the mouth of the Chuken River, in the area of the village of Gvasyugi, after which the fishermen went missing. A search and rescue team from the village of Rakitnoye was dispatched to the scene. Rescuers found the body of a 45-year-old man and handed it over to police. The second fisherman, aged 34, was discovered under a pile of trees and branches in the river; at the time of the Emergencies Ministry report, work to recover him was underway.
Search continues in Amursk
At the same time, a 49-year-old crew member of a vessel who went missing near the CHPP-1 power plant is being searched for in Amursk. According to preliminary data, he may have fallen overboard into a backwater of the Amur River. The initial searches by police and the vessel's crew yielded no results. Rescuers from Komsomolsk-on-Amur joined the operation: over the course of a day, divers made five dives and surveyed 500 square meters of the riverbed, while municipal rescuers examined about a kilometer of the water area and shoreline. The man's whereabouts have not yet been established, and the search continues.
Context: a series of water incidents
Police and investigative authorities are looking into the circumstances of the boat capsizing. The outlet also recalls recent tragedies: on October 30 in Khabarovsk Krai two children died after falling through thin ice along with their mother, who was rescued; on October 24 on the Ob River in Yugra three men died after a motorboat capsized, and a fourth was saved by bystanders; on the same day the search for two fishermen ended off the coast of Dagestan, whose boat had capsized in the Caspian Sea.
