Overview
- Regional emergency officials said a participant was carried away by the current during ice-floating, a practice involving insulated floating hydro-suits.
- Rescue teams from the Murmansk Arctic Emergency Rescue Center and the regional emergency rescue service were dispatched and are conducting a search.
- The regional branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Article 238 on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements.
- Authorities reported the missing woman was born in 1968.
- Murmansk Oblast is currently seeing temperatures below minus 20 degrees Celsius.