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Incident on Volga River reservoir

July 11, 2011

On Monday an aged cruise from Russia got sunk in the Volga River Reservoir. According to the reports the people who were found dead were nine in number and eighty were rescued, the rest include ninety members who were also travelling on the ship. These rest ninety people are still missing and have not been found yet. After the incident from the investigations it was revealed that the cruise was carrying more people than it could hold. The reports confirmed that more than one hundred and eighty people were sitting on the boat and the capacity of the ship just allowed it to carry no more than one hundred and twenty people. No proper reason has been yet given as to what was the reason behind sinking of the boat. The people who got rescued have answered to this problem that while the ship was making a turn it was hit by a strong wave and it washed over the deck entirely. The depth up to which the boat sunk was said to be about sixty five feet. The distance from the spot of the incident to the shore is measured to be almost two miles approximately.

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