Only two of the victims managed to reach the shore. Rescuers are still searching for the other three young people.
Five friends, all 16-17 years old, decided to celebrate the 16th birthday of the only girl in the company - Nicole. They came from the city of Sortavala to the village of Impilahti, Pitkyaranta district, to visit the grandmother of one of the teenagers. We took a cauldron boat with a motor and went to one of the islands in Lake Ladoga. We planned to rest there for two days. We took a tent and sleeping bags with us. But no care was taken to take life jackets. The boat capsized. The guys ended up in the water. Two guys were able to get to the shore on their own; they were immediately sent to the Sortavala Central Regional Hospital with severe hypothermia and a state of stress. Now their health is not in danger, doctors said. Three teenagers, including Nicole, are still being searched for. And the rescuers still have hope of finding the guys alive, because the two guys who survived said that they saw two more guys swimming in the other direction. Perhaps they still managed to get to the islands...
According to the father of the surviving boy, the friend was just going to go hiking. There was no talk of any water travel. At least that's what the teenagers told their parents. They were sober - no alcohol was found in the blood of the two surviving boys.
Rescuers received a message about the emergency at 21.20. More than 120 people and the necessary equipment immediately went to the scene of the incident. A few hours later the group was doubled in size and an operational headquarters was created. Acting Head of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov urgently arrived in the Pitkyaranta region.
The preliminary causes of the emergency have already been established - unstable weather conditions, strong waves and the inability of teenagers to control a boat that is not suitable for sailing on lakes. As Evgeny Tishkovets, a leading employee of the FOBOS Weather Center, reported on his page on the social network, the wind conditions in the waters of Lake Ladoga were difficult, gusts of wind increased to 15 meters per second just in the period from 18 to 21 hours - the time of the emergency. Therefore, one wave was enough to capsize the boat. As for the cauldron itself, on which the children floated, then, according to rescuers, since the seventies of the last century it was recognized as unsafe and prone to capsizing on turns. Investigators will now look into all the details.
The preliminary causes of the emergency are unstable weather, strong waves and the inability of teenagers to operate a boat.
The Investigative Committee of Karelia opened a criminal case into the emergency on Ladoga under Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - causing death by negligence to two or more persons. Investigators have already interviewed the surviving guys. Anna Kuznetsova, the Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, also responded to the tragedy.
The incident on Lake Ladoga confirms the need for adults, especially outside organized camps, to pay special attention to organizing children’s leisure time, to take an interest in where they plan to go, and to take care of basic safety rules,” commented the Children’s Ombudsman.
The Ombudsman for Children's Rights in Karelia, Oksana Starshova, is directly at the scene of the tragedy and helps parents survive the moments of anticipation.
And just a day ago, by the way, the republic celebrated the sad anniversary of the Syamozero tragedy. On June 18, 2016, 47 teenagers and four accompanying people went on an unauthorized water trip from the children's camp "Park Hotel "Syamozero". They also wanted to visit the islands in the center of the lake. But strong waves and wind overturned the boats, the children ended up in the water. 14 teenagers drowned At the worship cross erected in memory of the dead children on the shore of Syamozero, adults said that such a tragedy should not be allowed...
Meanwhile
In Karelia, a passenger ship traveling along the route "Nizhny Novgorod - Solovki - Nizhny Novgorod" ran aground at the 1275th kilometer of the White Sea-Baltic Canal between locks 11 and 12. Employees of the Segezha fire and rescue garrison went to the scene of the emergency. The check is carried out by transport police. There were 137 passengers and 62 crew members on board. All passengers were transferred to another ship and taken to Medvezhyegorsk. As the press secretary of the head of the republic, Marina Kabatyuk, told RG, passengers were taken from Medvezhyegorsk by bus to Petrozavodsk, checked into hotels, and provided with everything they needed. The crew members remained on the ship.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations says
Rescuers and volunteers continue to search for the three missing teenagers. They have already examined 9 kilometers of the coastal zone, 12 square kilometers of the lake, helicopters have been deployed, and divers are working. As stated by the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Karelia Sergei Shugaev, specialists also use a deep-sea vehicle for work in coastal waters. The fact is that the depth of Lake Ladoga can reach 40 meters. 264 people and 55 pieces of equipment were involved in the search, of which 158 people and 31 pieces of equipment were from the Ministry of Emergency Situations. On Ladoga, in the area where the boat was supposed to capsize, the weather was favorable for the search. According to reports from the Karelian Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, diving crews continued diving all day and examined the bottom of the bay.
All work of the operational headquarters and operational groups of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Karelia is carried out in cooperation with local governments and other emergency services. An interdepartmental operational headquarters was formed as soon as alarming information about the emergency was received. The think tank is naturally located on the basis of the Crisis Management Center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Karelia.
The reinforced group of forces and resources included fire and rescue units of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Karelia, units of the State Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, the Karelian Republican Search and Rescue Service, diving crews, volunteers, 2 Mi-8 helicopters of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Government of Karelia.
On June 18, we barely had time to remember how a year ago the Syamozero tragedy claimed the lives of 14 children, but the next day we heard about a new disaster: in the Impilakhtsky Bay on Ladoga on the evening of June 19, a boat with children capsized. that there were five people on it: four boys and one girl. It is also known that two young men are alive: 16-year-old Igor and 17-year-old Andrei: they managed to get to the shore. At 8 a.m. it was known that they were in the ambulance, and the issue of their hospitalization was being decided.
The fate of the other three children - 18-year-old Roman, 16-year-old Nicole and 17-year-old Konstantin - is unknown. According to Intefax, citing the Karelian prosecutor's office, they drowned. However, there is no official confirmation of this information.
One of the missing boys. Photos from gubdaily.ru
That at least a girl died - TASS with reference to the head of the administration of the Impilakhtinsky rural settlement. According to Zhanna Sharets, the girl died in front of other children. According to Gubdaily, the girl had a birthday yesterday.
The father of one of the teenagers who survived on Lake Ladoga told REN-TV about what happened.
One (of the survivors) immediately swam to the shore. The son stayed and tried to save the girl. He began to swim towards her and saw that she was no longer there. That is, it turns out from his words that he did not have time to swim to the girl before she sank,
The man said.
It is reported that the children went fishing, but a strong storm broke out and the boat capsized. However, according to a freelance employee of GIMS, there is a skerry area there, quite closed, there should not have been a strong wave. Perhaps the inability to drive a motor boat played a role, - a woman on the REN TV channel.
She learned about the emergency from friends from a tourist camp - a boy came to them from a boat that had crashed.
Next, I launched the whole mechanism by calling the management of the Pitkyaranta section of GIMS. They went straight to the place (in Ladoga it’s about 15-20 km). Local volunteers in motor boats immediately arrived from the village of Impilahti. According to preliminary data, the boat capsized near the shore; the children were without life jackets.
12.20. The Investigative Committee reported that the operation to search for missing teenagers could continue at night.
13.02. Oksana Starshova, the Commissioner for Children's Rights of Karelia, told the National News Service that there is still hope to find the children alive:
“There is no point in saying that Syamozer’s lessons were in vain. It is too early to assess the tragedy on Lake Ladoga. We need to find out why, what and how. We have not yet lost hope that the three guys they are looking for will be found alive. As for the information that I have, I can say that these are teenagers who have reached a certain age, they claim that they are almost adults, but in fact they remain children. What were the adults thinking when they gave them the opportunity to take this craft? There are many issues that need to be sorted out,” Starshova said.
13:51. Maxim Rozhin, an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Kazakhstan, who is responsible for communication with the press at the scene of the tragedy, told the portal “Petrozavodsk says” that it is too early to talk about the causes of the tragedy.
According to him, at the time the boat capsized there was no storm on the lake (previously, a version was voiced that the boat could have been capsized by a strong wave). It is still impossible to establish why the guys ended up in the water, despite the fact that the watercraft was delivered to the shore. The boat on which the teenagers capsized is an old cauldron. It is prohibited to drive such watercraft without a license, as well as by persons under 18 years of age. The boat was handed over to the guys in violation of the law. At the same time, the teenagers went into the lake without life jackets.
Also, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan said that hypothermia was not detected in the surviving guys. This information differs from the data of doctors that our portal provided earlier.
At the moment, the search for the missing guys continues. The paddle and jacket of one of them were found. The parents of one of the teenagers are present at the scene of the tragedy. Psychologists work with them. It is forbidden to talk to them.
14:02. As the portal managed to find out from the scene of the emergency, the teenagers went on a boat to Lake Ladoga from the village of Suremia, where one of the guys lives with a grandmother. 264 people and 55 pieces of equipment are involved in the search for the missing teenagers. Rescuers are inspecting 9 kilometers of coastline. Two MI-8 helicopters are involved. At the moment, one of them is on the shore, the other is refueling.
14.15 . As our correspondent reports, the boat with the motor was discovered at 00 o'clock, the transport police brought it ashore, and the motor was taken by investigators. Now on Ladoga it is light rain and cloudy, there are no waves. This is good considering the weather had previously been called unfavorable for the search due to forecast strong winds.
14.46. The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Karelia, Sergei Shugaev, said that another camp would be set up nearby in a clearing, although the main forces of the search headquarters would remain in the same place - in the trout farming area. Two helicopters flew over the scene and surrounding areas in the morning, another one is now planned, and one, possibly in the evening, over the area where the boat and the injured guys were found.
That same ill-fated boat, "Kazanka M":
14.57. The GIMS group of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia returned from the search. As one of the heads of the service, Igor Potanin, said, the search area was 2 by 2 km, the depth difference in that place was 45 meters or deeper, the terrain was very difficult. The search involves 10 ships, boats, boats, one drone, and two divers. The latter dive to a depth of 12 meters.
The depths and terrain make the search more difficult. In addition, because of their design, EMERCOM boats cannot get close to rocks and skerries. As Potanin said, the boat was found “sunk” in the lake, about 200-300 meters from the shore. Water plus 5 degrees.
15:23. The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Republic of Kazakhstan, Sergei Shugaev, said that, despite the worsening weather, the search operation continues. He noted that yesterday the Ministry of Emergency Situations sent out a warning to fishermen about the undesirability of going into the lake due to winds of 15 m/s. According to him, the children rented a boat from a private person; the parents were aware of the children’s plans, but did not know the route.
Volunteer rescuers clarified that the first to lend a helping hand to the teenagers who escaped on Ladoga were kayakers.
They were the first to be met on their way by a teenager who miraculously swam to shore from an overturned boat. Having learned from him about the emergency, the kayakers immediately took to the water and brought another teenager from the island, who also survived the crash. They warmed the victims with tea and warm clothes. And they immediately reported what had happened to a freelance GIMS inspector,
She said.
16:08. The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Kazakhstan told how the rescue operation is going and what the rescuers have managed to find out so far. In particular, he noted that the boat that the teenagers rented from a private person capsized near the island, which was about 50 meters away. The wave at that moment was about one meter. For preliminary reasons, the craft capsized due to a seating arrangement violation: five people is quite a large number of people on a small craft.
The imbalance, plus the wind load, is what caused the boat to capsize,
He said.
The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations believes that there is still a chance to find the teenagers alive. That is why a survey of the coastal zone is now underway.
Four of us are going to an island 80 km from Sortavala. With a tent for two days on a friend's boat. For the first time I will celebrate my birthday normally.
The publication also restores the picture of what happened. More about this
18.57. Some time ago, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that the body of 16-year-old Nicole had been found. The publication refers to information from a source close to the search process.
However, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations did not confirm to our publication the information about the found body. Also, the Head of the Administration of Impilahti, Zhanna Sharets, and the freelance employee of GIMS, Olga Kolomeets, do not know anything about such a find.
20:15. The Nika Plus television company made several stories from the scene of the tragedy.
22.34. According to Life.ru, the owner of the trout farm, where the search headquarters was based, drove the Emergency Situations Ministry employees, relatives of the missing children and journalists from his territory: it was chosen because of its convenient location, but the man did not like it. The publication even claims that the owner attacked a Life journalist, broke his nose, and trampled the phone on which all this was filmed and threw it into the lake.
Meanwhile, the owner was willing to contact the portal “Petrozavodsk Speaks” by phone. Tomorrow we will try to find out to what extent Life's information corresponds to reality and, if so, what is the reason for this.
In the Pitkyaranta region of Karelia on the evening of June 19, a boat with five teenagers capsized; According to preliminary data, three of them died, and the other two managed to swim to the shore.
“The incident was reported at 21.35. On Lake Ladoga near the town of Impilahti, a boat with five teenagers aged 16 to 18 capsized. According to preliminary data, three teenagers drowned,” the report quotes.
The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Karelia confirmed this information and reported that inspectors from the State Inspectorate for Small Vessels (GIMS), employees of the Karelian search service, as well as volunteers went to the scene of the emergency.
The administration of the Sortavala district reported that two teenagers, 16 and 17 years old, were able to get ashore on their own without receiving serious injuries. The administration also added that the search for three children is still underway at the site; they are not officially listed as dead.
“The identities of all the victims have been established. They are local residents who were vacationing on the lake. There is communication with parents, psychologists work. An operational headquarters will be deployed at the scene of the incident with the participation of the district administration. A search is underway for the three missing minors,” he said.
It is known that the first conversation with the surviving teenagers has already been conducted.
“A preliminary survey of the two surviving teenagers showed that there was a girl their age on the boat with them; she did not manage to escape,” the regional authorities indicated. It is also reported that the missing children could have sailed to some other island.
“In the area of the boat wreck there is an archipelago of several islands. It is hoped that the two managed to escape there. None of the survivors indicated that they witnessed their deaths,” law enforcement officials said.
In the near future, a criminal case will probably be initiated into the incident.
“Currently, investigators from the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Karelia are working at the scene, all the circumstances of the incident are being clarified. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided,” the regional department said in a statement.
The search is being conducted by employees of the GIMS unit of the Pitkyaranta region, the Pitkyaranta fire and rescue garrison, the Sortavala search and rescue squad and volunteers. A helicopter is also used in the operation. According to the government of Karelia, the acting head of the region urgently went to the scene and personally led the rescue operation.
“In addition to the scene of the incident, an operational group of the Main Directorate for the Republic of Karelia, an airmobile group of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Karelia, a group of the police department for the Pitkyaranta district - 123 people, 27 units of equipment”, says the message of the Republican Ministry of Emergency Situations.
“There were five teenagers in the boat - four young men and one girl aged approximately 15-17 years. Three of them are from Sortavala, two are from the nearest village. They went fishing on their own. At that time there was wind on the lake,” one of the local sources quotes.
It is also known that one of the surviving teenagers was picked up by kayakers who provided him with first aid. The second was able to swim to shore and from there call for help by phone.
During a search operation, rescuers found an overturned boat on Lake Ladoga in Karelia. Now she is being towed to the village of Sumeria. No children were found near the boat. Search work is taking place at a water temperature of 5 degrees, reports the Karelinform portal.
In addition, the names of the children in the boat became known. Two managed to escape: Igor D. (born in 2001) and Andrey Zh. (born in 2000). Roman Y. (born 1999), Nicole L. (born 2001), Konstantin A. (born 2000) are listed as missing, FAN reports.
Exactly a year ago, on June 18, 2016, a group of 51 people (47 children accompanied by four teachers) got caught in a storm while rafting on Syamozero. 14 people were killed in the crash.
The dead schoolchildren were children from orphanages and disadvantaged families. They came to relax on Syamozero through the Moscow social security authorities. The incident became known only the next day, Sunday. Moreover, one of the victims reported the incident - a 12-year-old girl from Moscow, who managed to swim to the shore and lay unconscious all night. When she woke up, she wandered to the nearest village for help.
GIRL'S BODY FOUND
A year after the tragedy on Syamozero in Karelia, they are again looking for missing children. And again there was an emergency on the water.
On the evening of June 19, a small motor boat capsized on Lake Ladoga, in the Impilakhtinsky Bay. There were five teenagers in it: 16-year-old Nicole, 17-year-old Andrey, Kostya, Igor and 18-year-old Roma.
The incident occurred around 8 pm. Two managed to reach the shore - Andrey and Igor. It was they who told the local residents about what had happened.
Until the last moment there was hope that the other three were alive.
The tragic news came at about 16.00 on Tuesday from the headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on Lake Ladoga.
The girl’s body was found, a source familiar with the search told KP.
Let us remind you that local residents got into boats and took to the water even before the arrival of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on the evening of June 19. Alas: the first searches were unsuccessful.
The rescue operation lasted all night and is still ongoing. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, more than 200 rescuers are participating in the search.
Divers are working. Roman and Konstantin have not yet been found - neither alive nor dead.
“ALL THE LOCAL GOES OUT TO SEARCH”
Komsomolskaya Pravda found a local resident who was one of the first to come to the aid of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
We arrived a little later than the official services arrived. The victims who managed to escape were already sitting in the GIMS boat. Frightened, frozen... They were handed over to doctors. And the search began,” says our interlocutor. He asked not to give his name. - All the local residents went out to search, everyone is trying to help. No one slept a wink at night.
According to him, the weather was not bad yesterday, but suddenly a squally wind blew up.
Literally 20-25 minutes. Perhaps everything happened at this time. And now the weather is getting worse: it’s starting to wind, it’s cloudy,” says the volunteer.
WE WENT ON A HIKE
As KP found out, the teenagers took sleeping bags and tents with them - they were going to spend a couple of days on one of the islands.
The boat was driven by Igor. Apparently, it belongs to his father.
I only know the fact that they went to the island for two days. We were going to celebrate Nicole’s birthday - she turned 16 on June 19,” schoolgirl Ksenia R., who knows all five teenagers well, told Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Nicole just passed the State final certification based on the results of 9th grade. Kostya, Andrey and Igor graduated from 10th grade. The oldest is 18-year-old Roman. He graduated from school this year.
Roma and Nicole have been dating for almost two years. This June hike is a kind of gift to a girl in honor of her 16th birthday. At the same time, we planned to celebrate the end of the school year.
According to Ksenia, the guys invited her with them. But the girl refused. It probably saved her life.
CHANGABLE WEATHER
On the morning of June 19, the whole company arrived in the village of Impilahti, on the shores of Lake Ladoga - Igor’s grandmother lives here. But they got into the boat only in the evening. Why?
KP does not yet have an answer to this question. It is possible that they were simply waiting for the rain to stop. There are white nights in Karelia now, and the guys understood that even at night they would not get lost.
But the weather in these parts is harsh.
The weather was very changeable. The last few days have been either rain or sun. A terrible wind blew for two days. It was in vain that they swam in such weather,” Ksenia worries.
"I COULD NOT CONTROL"
It is still unknown which island the guys were heading to. There are quite a lot of them on Lake Ladoga.
But it is already known who was driving the boat at the time of the emergency - it was Andrey. Investigators have already talked to him.
Literally before the incident, they came out of the bay into open water, and unfortunately, the owner of the boat (we are talking about Igor - editor's note) handed over control to his friend, who almost immediately failed and allowed the craft to capsize, the acting head of Karelia said on Tuesday afternoon Arthur Parfenchikov.
Let us add: Andrei and Igor were hospitalized, their lives are not in danger. The water temperature in Lake Ladoga now does not exceed 12 degrees.
The search covers the entire bay, without any specifics,” Alexey Tkachev, a specialist in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Karelia, told KP.
Press Secretary of the Investigative Committee of Karelia Vitaly Konovalov could not provide KP with any details. A criminal case was opened under the article “causing death by negligence of two or more persons.”
OFFICIAL: THE OWNER OF THE BOAT AND THE ONE WHO DRIVED IT WERE SAVED
Acting Head of the Republic of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov:
The search for the three missing people is now being carried out by 258 people, 55 pieces of equipment, including two MI-8 helicopters, inspecting the waters of Lake Ladoga from the air.
Information about the incident arrived fairly quickly; there were many vacationers and watercraft near the scene of the incident. Within half an hour, teams of volunteers were organized, which made it possible to quickly locate the second surviving young man.
We can immediately state that this is a coincidence of circumstances, as happens in accidents. Five young people: four boys and a girl, celebrated a girl’s birthday. We took a boat with a motor and drove along the channels around the islands. Shortly before the incident, they decided to go out onto the open water of Lake Ladoga, and the owner of the boat handed over control to his friend. He lost control and the boat capsized.
The situation is complicated by the fact that at the supposed location of the incident the depth reaches 30-40 meters and there is a strong current. The boat was discovered a few hours after the incident, 6 km from the supposed crash site - it is obvious that the current is very strong. I personally conducted a survey of local residents, they say that this is not the first case in these places, and, unfortunately, often bodies are not found due to the strong current and depth.
The guys who escaped - they swam. It's a miracle. But I believe that the investigative authorities should evaluate this frivolity - the owner of the boat and the one who was driving the boat at the time of the crash were saved.
OPINION: THERE WERE NO BIG WAVES
Deputy Director of the pilgrimage service of the Valaam Monastery Vladimir Rudin, who oversees the issues of navigation to the island of Valaam:
Passenger ships with a capacity of more than a hundred people are one thing. Another thing is the small fleet, boats. For boats, Ladoga, of course, poses a great danger. Although yesterday or the day before yesterday there was no big wave: I think the matter was completely different.
As a rule, unexpected weather phenomena - it was quiet and suddenly it blew sharply - do not happen. At least, if it inflates, then for at least two to three hours. During this time, you can leave and hide in a coastal shelter.
True, if the boat is slow-moving and if it is in open water, twenty kilometers from the land, then it will not have time to hide. Because a meter wave is a huge danger for a boat, especially for inexperienced sailors. And children usually do not adequately assess waves and their own strengths, especially in the company of girls.
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Search operation on Lake Ladoga. Video: Russian Emergency Situations Ministry
