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