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A total of 117 people have suffered as a Russian trawler ‘Dalniy Vostok’ sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk, off the Kamchatka Peninsula, with 54 reported to be dead after their bodies were pulled out from the water by the rescue team. Also, according to the latest development, 15 are still considered to be missing.
Majority of the survivors have been suffering from either hypothermia or have been seriously injured in the shipwreck. They have been airlifted by helicopter and are to be admitted to the nearest clinics at the earliest.
The rescue operation included 26-vessels present at the site at that time, with also an MI-8 helicopter including 4 rescue personnel and a medic aboard. Though intensive care has been taken to search and airlift the victims, the chances of survival of the ‘missing’ is nearly impossible. Rescuers also speculate that around 20 people on board couldn’t make it to the raft and sank as a result.
The vessel ‘Dalniy Vostok’ was built in the year 1989, and until the last year was deployed in the Baltic Sea region, off the coast of Riga, Latvia as ‘Stende’. The trawler was later acquired by ‘Magellan’ group and assigned to the port of Nevesk. Collision with huge masses of ice has been considered as one of the probabilities of the mishap.
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