Eight feared dead after a bus with Chinese tourists sinks into Russia's Lake Baikal


The world’s deepest lake, located north of Mongolia, is a popular destination for tourists. -- SCREENGRAB: GOOGLE MAPS via The Straits Times/ANN

MOSCOW (Reuters): Seven Chinese tourists and a bus driver are feared dead after a tourist bus driving across a frozen stretch of Lake Baikal in Russia's Siberia plunged into the water when the ice broke beneath it, local governor, Igor Kobzev, said on Friday via his channel in Telegram.

One tourist managed to escape, and the search for the others continues, he said. The world’s deepest lake, located north of Mongolia, is a popular destination for tourists.

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