Volga River death toll hits 100
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July 14, 2011, Thursday
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THE death toll from Sunday's sinking of a cruise vessel on the Volga River rose to 100 yesterday as families continued to bury the dead and rescuers searched for 29 people still missing.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement yesterday that some 200 divers are still scouring the river for bodies.
A total of 208 people are believed to have sailed on the 55-year-old boat, the Bulgaria, that officials say was overloaded when it sank.
They have not yet determined the cause of the sinking. Survivors reported the boat was listing to starboard and having engine trouble even as it left the town of Bulgar en route to Kazan, about 750 kilometers east of Moscow.
Families of the victims were burying their relatives at the multi-faith Kinderi cemetery outside Kazan yesterday.
At its Muslim section, overgrown with weeds, Vladimir Nazarov laid to rest his 9-year-old grandson Ruslan who was on his way home from a sports camp with his mother, who survived. The woman was nowhere to be found at the boy's grave. Her relatives said a wave swept her out of the ship and her son couldn't make it, but she does not have a clear memory of the accident.
At the Christian section of the same cemetery, relatives were mourning the ship's captain Alexander Ostrovsky. He is reported to have stayed in the control room until the ship sank. His family believes he chose to sink with the vessel and blames the ship's owner.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement yesterday that some 200 divers are still scouring the river for bodies.
A total of 208 people are believed to have sailed on the 55-year-old boat, the Bulgaria, that officials say was overloaded when it sank.
They have not yet determined the cause of the sinking. Survivors reported the boat was listing to starboard and having engine trouble even as it left the town of Bulgar en route to Kazan, about 750 kilometers east of Moscow.
Families of the victims were burying their relatives at the multi-faith Kinderi cemetery outside Kazan yesterday.
At its Muslim section, overgrown with weeds, Vladimir Nazarov laid to rest his 9-year-old grandson Ruslan who was on his way home from a sports camp with his mother, who survived. The woman was nowhere to be found at the boy's grave. Her relatives said a wave swept her out of the ship and her son couldn't make it, but she does not have a clear memory of the accident.
At the Christian section of the same cemetery, relatives were mourning the ship's captain Alexander Ostrovsky. He is reported to have stayed in the control room until the ship sank. His family believes he chose to sink with the vessel and blames the ship's owner.
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