Helicopter with 16 people on board crashes in Russia’s Kamchatka

At least nine people found alive while fate of seven others unknown after Mi-8 helicopter came down in Lake Kuril.

A helicopter with 16 people on board, most of them tourists, has crashed in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia’s far east the local government said, with seven passengers unaccounted for. The Mi-8 helicopter came down in Lake Kuril in the Kronotsky nature reserve, it said in a statement on Thursday. According to preliminary information, “there were three crew members and 13 passengers on board”, all tourists, it added.